Based on her strong performance in international competitions, Margaux Isaksen, Fayetteville, AR qualified to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games. Margaux easily accumulated enough points through the Olympic World Rankings to qualify in the opening selection for the Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro in August. This will be Margaux's third Olympic Games as she competed in Beijing in 2008 and finished fourth in London in 2012.
Margaux joins Nathan Schrimsher, Roswell, NM who already qualified with a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. Nathan was the first American athlete in any sport to qualify for the Rio Games. Additional US athletes will have to wait till June 16 when the second selection round is announced by the Union International of Pentathlon Modern.
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