(n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, pentathlon and basketball sportsmen exhibit in their kinesthetic analyser the greatest number of minimum increases of sensation, namely 30.2 and 21.4 respectively, while those not engaged in any sport, 15.0.
(2) The 22-year-old is the current world No1 in heptathlon and took pentathlon gold at the European Indoor Championships in March .
(3) Oral application of elevated dosages of vitamin B1, B6 and B12 have been found to improve target shooting in marksmen, recruited from a local pentathlon association, in two different studies.
(4) The equivalent figure for canoeing is 45,700 while the number for modern pentathlon is recorded as an "insufficient sample size".
(5) If anyone doubts the scale of Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s ambitions, then they should have been in the mixed zone moments after she had won her first senior championship gold at the European Indoor Championships, broken Jessica Ennis-Hill’s British pentathlon record, and become only the second athlete to break the 5,000 points barrier.
(6) Just five months later she set a personal best in the pentathlon, nine points off the legendary Carolina Kluft's junior record.
(7) 10.17pm BST The crowd are singing along to the Beatles' All You Need Is Love There's delay in the pentathlon medal ceremony because of protests and counter-protests.
(8) I haven’t done the pentathlon since 2012 so I’m excited to be back but I know it won’t be easy and there’s going to be stiff competition.
(9) Closest correlation has been recorded among pentathlon sportmen, volley-ballers and fencers.
(10) Vd and average swimming velocities in a modern pentathlon swimming race (300 m free-style) were also correlated (n = 9, r = 0.91), thus suggesting that AT is critical in determining the speed in middle-distance swimming events.
(11) Nadine Broersen, from the Netherlands, is the world indoor champion in the pentathlon and she’ll be there but I’m in good form.” Ennis-Hill has stated that, when she matures fully, Johnson-Thompson will be a better heptathlete than even her.
(12) This study compares the effects of quiet breathing on the heart structure and function of pentathlon athletes (n = 11) and a less-conditioned control group (n = 12).
(13) UK Sport is currently spending more than £20m to fund elite canoeing during the Rio cycle, with the equivalent figure almost £7m for modern pentathlon.
(14) In the next few hours, 80,000 people here – as well as billions worldwide – will watch Jess Ennis become an Olympic pentathlon gold medallist.
(15) Her furtive preference for football in Liverpool ahead of ballet in London eventually led her to athletics and the point where, this week, she enters the European indoor championships as the clear favourite for the pentathlon .
(16) Johnson-Thompson is ranked world No1 in both the pentathlon and outdoors in the heptathlon – where, over the next 18 months, her contests with Jessica Ennis-Hill , the returning Olympic champion, should produce some gripping battles.
(17) Bronze, 1992 Barcelona Olympics Karen Roberts – Bronze, World Judo Championship 1999 Nicola Fairbrother – Silver, 1992 Barcelona Olympics LUGE Mark Hatton – Winter Olympian MODERN PENTATHLON Kate Allenby – Bronze, 2000 Sydney Olympics ROWING Miriam Batten – Silver, 2000 Sydney Olympics Annabel Eyres – Olympian, 1992 Barcelona Olympics Guin Batten – Silver, 2000 Sydney Olympics Frances Houghton – Two-time Silver, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2004 Athens Olympics Anna Bebington - Bronze, 2008 Beijing Olympics.
(18) Within this elite group the most successful performers were stronger and possessed a greater lean body weight which together suggest the importance of muscle mass for success in the pentathlon.
Wrestling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestle
Example Sentences:
(1) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(2) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(3) Can the protests, which tried, ultimately without success, to wrestle genuine universal suffrage from Beijing, be called a failure?
(4) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
(5) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
(6) But the Lib Dems' conference, which starts on Saturday in Glasgow, may be marked by a series of internal disputes as the leadership and party activists wrestle over strategy, policies and the independence of its manifesto.
(7) Celebrity Wrestling is the biggest failure of the ITV 2005 schedule so far.
(8) Heselden's only reservation about the ceremony, said David Robinson, would have been the time it took 30 or more staff to wrestle with erecting the marquee.
(9) This failure to wrestle with what’s coming goes wider.
(10) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
(11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
(12) – are all questions that many health and care economies around the country are still wrestling with.
(13) But Bony knows he has the trust of me and the team.” A second Ivorian joined him among the goals when Damien Delaney wrestled Eliaquim Mangala to the ground and Touré scored from the resulting penalty.
(14) Hookem said: “It was two people grappling, that had hold of each other, and were basically still stood up but wrestling.
(15) He had wrestled one of the gunmen – there were marks on his arms where he had attempted to fight them off – and been shot in the chest, dying instantly.
(16) A wrestler's weight is often determined by the need to fill a wrestling class and not on a good scientific basis.
(17) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(18) There are a number of common problems that affect the whole of our media spectrum, all of which have at some point to be wrestled to the ground if we're to ever move beyond what I see as this potentially self-destructive phase in our historical development.
(19) The room held 52' Carl Hutchinson My childhood hero was World Wrestling Entertainment's Mick Foley .
(20) So it is with Ukip: this party has made no rational sense since it captured the name from its anti-federalist founders and wrestled it into a one-man, anti-everything machine.