All-round champion
NZPA Rome Italy's Daniel Masala won the individual title in the world modern pentathlon championships in recordbreaking style yesterday. Masala, aged 27, became the first Italian to take the title with a haul of 5680 points, which beat the Olympic and world record of 5568
set by Anatoli Starostin, of the Soviet Union, at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Masala accumulated his winning tally with a maximum score in the equestrian event, a second place in the fencing, third in the swimming and fifth in the shooting. He clinched the title by finishing nineteenth in the cross country.
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Press, 11 October 1982, Page 40
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