Czech Republic win modern pentathlon

Czech David Svoboda won gold in the men's modern pentathlon as British duo Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale could only finish 10th and 13th.

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The home pair went into the final event, the combined run and shoot, in the top 10 but they could not make up ground on the leaders in front of a huge crowd at Greenwich Park.

Svoboda, the 2010 European champion, went into the combined event in first place and overhauled China's Cao Zhongrong on the final one-kilometre run while Adam Marosi of Hungary won bronze.

Woodbridge's 10th place matched the finish of Weale in Beijing, which was the best by a British man for 16 years.



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