Silver went to Japan's Taishu Sato with 1542 points, and bronze went to Italy's Giorgio Malan with 1536 points. Mexico's Emiliano Hernandez missed out by just four points in this event that combines horse jumping, fencing, swimming and laser run (which combines running and shooting).

In equestrian show jumping, Italy's Giorgio Malan came first, followed by Japan's Taishu Sato and France's Jean Baptiste Mourcia.

The three of them, as well as the Hungarian Balazs Szep, the German Fabian Liebig and the Egyptian Ahmed Elgendy, scored the same score, 300. The Italian Malan had the best time, with 61.97, while Sat of Japan scored 59.21 and the Frenchman Baptist followed with 58.67.

In fencing, the Egyptian Elgendy was the top performer with 245 points, followed by South Korea's Woongtae Jun (241) and Latvia's Pavels Svecocs (240).

In that event, Italy's Giorgi Malan, who was first in the jumps, came 14th, and Sato, who was second in the jumps, here was fifth. The Frenchman, third in the first event here, dropped to 16th position, while the Korean, on the other hand, was the worst placed in the jumps.

In swimming, Britain's Joseph Choong stood out, followed by Switzerland's Alexandre Dallenbech and Hungary's Csaba Bohm.  In laser-run, the best was Mexico's Emiliano Hernández (720), followed by France's Jean Baptiste Mourcie (717) and Hungary's Csaba Bohm.

The women's semi-finals, in which the nine best athletes qualify for the final, were held earlier. The winners were Great Britain's Kerenza Bryson (1,402 points), followed by Italy's Elena Micheli (1401), tied with Italy's Alicia Sotero. Just one point behind was Korea's Seungmin Seong, followed by Great Britain's Kate French (1398), France's Elodie Clouvel (1398), Spain's Laura Heredia (1397) and Hungary's Michelle Gulyas and Blanca Guzi, both with 1397 points. 

The Czech Lucie Hlavackova (1395), France's Marie Oteiza (1395), Egypt's Malak Ismail (1391) and Lithuania's Laura Asadauskaite (1389) also missed out.