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What is a pentathlon?

What is a pentathlon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
  2. (athletics) Modern pentathlon.
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When the championships re-crossed the Atlantic to Canada in 1993 the heptathlon and pentathlon were added to the list of events.
He would recover, though, and go on to win the silver medal in the pentathlon at the 1996 Olympics.
However, earlier on she had produced some creditable performances in her first four events in the senior women's pentathlon.
If pentathlon loses its Olympic status, its supporters argue, the sport will wither and die.
Baseball might be right up with pentathlon and synchronised swimming among sports of dubious Olympian pedigree.
They show particular eminence in fencing, wrestling, pentathlon, swimming and canoeing.

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