[1][2] Although the event was considered wide open, as no other athlete dominated the sport since 2000, the Russians, Lithuanians and Czechs continued to reach the top positions in the men's competition.

Russia's Andrey Moiseev won the gold medal with a score of 5,480 points.

Andrejus Zadneprovskis of Lithuania won the nation's first ever Olympic medal in modern pentathlon, taking the silver.

Libor Capalini of the Czech Republic, on the other hand, claimed the bronze, winning his nation's first medal in the sport since Jan Bártů won one for Czechoslovakia in 1976.

The modern pentathlon consisted of five events, with all five held in one day.