Alexander Parygin
Alexander "Alex" Parygin (born 25 April 1973) is a Kazakh-Australian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he won the individual gold medal.<ref name=db-ol-MOD1996>"1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Modern Pentathlon" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 15, 2008)</ref><ref>Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref>
He competed for Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and finished 27th overall. He initially qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but his qualification was called into question by the British team for failing to meet the minimum amount of points required to be eligible (as his qualification took place at the Oceanian Championship in Tokyo, where the show jumping segment was called off after an outbreak of equine flu;<ref name="TCP">Template:Cite web</ref> however, the Australian Olympic Committee initially insisted he had met the requirements),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and was eventually revoked by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).<ref name="TCP" /> Alex now lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Australian male modern pentathletes
- Kazakhstani male modern pentathletes
- Modern pentathletes at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Kazakhstan
- Olympic modern pentathletes of Kazakhstan
- Olympic modern pentathletes of Australia
- Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon
- Asian Games medalists in modern pentathlon
- Modern pentathletes at the 1994 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan
- Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan
- Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
