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USA Pentathlon Announces 2016 US Olympic Pentathlon Team

USA Pentathlon, the U.S. National Governing Body for the Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon is proud to announce the US team members for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

Leading the team is 3-time Olympian Margaux Isaksen, Fayetteville, AR. Margaux’s first Olympics’ was in 2008, Beijing where she competed as a 16 year-old. In London, 2012 she finished 4th where after a day-long competition, she was just 2 seconds from a medal. Since London, Margaux has won several World Cups, Continental and National Championships and the prestigious Champions of Champions event which brings together the winners of all of the world’s major competitions. World ranked #1 in the 2015 World Cup season, this year, she is again a medal contender in Rio.

Joining Margaux is her younger sister Isabella, where for the first time in Modern Pentathlon history two sisters will compete together in the same games. Isabella is a Junior World Champion from 2012 where she teamed with Margaux and Samantha Achterberg.  Also a US National Champion, she has now moved up successfully to the senior rankings. Isabella and Margaux both now live and train at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO.

The US men’s team will have US Army Sergeant Nathan Schrimsher, Roswell, NM, the first American over-all to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games with his bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada.  Nathan is part of the US Army World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) and is based in Fort Carson allowing him to train in Colorado Springs at the US Olympic Training Center. Nathan continues a tradition of US Army WCAP athletes representing the United States in Pentathlon as US Army Sergeant Dennis Bowsher competed in 2012 in London. Nathan was a multiple Junior National Champion before becoming a multiple Senior National Champion and Pan American Games medalist.

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