Alexander Parygin

Alexander Parygin (born 25 April 1973 in Alma- Ata) is a born in the Soviet Union athlete who has competed both for Kazakhstan and for Australia at the Olympic Summer Games in Modern Pentathlon.

At the games in Atlanta in 1996, he was starting for Kazakhstan Olympic champion in the individual competition. He won the first Olympic competition in this sport, in which all five disciplines were held on the same day. Eight years later at the 2004 Games in Athens, he went to Australia and finished in 27th place.

His qualification for the 2008 Games in Beijing, which he reached in Tokyo as part of the Ozeanienmeisterschaften 2007, was repealed by the International Court of Sport. The reason was an appeal by the British Association on the grounds that the qualification would not have been permitted in the qualification period during a regular international competition. The Ozeanienmeisterschaften where Parygin had qualified, had been carried out due to the horse flu without the sub-discipline of riding. In his place, took the next best in the world rankings Nick Woodbridge of Great Britain in the games.