OlympicTalk · Jul 20, 2015
Nathan Schrimsher is first athlete to qualify for 2016 U.S. Olympic team
Getty ImagesModern pentathlete Nathan Schrimsher became the first athlete to qualify for the 2016 U.S. Olympic team by finishing third at the Pan American Games in Toronto on Sunday.
Schrimsher, 23, made his first Olympic team. He is ranked No. 59 in the world, finished 13th at the 2010 Youth Olympics and is part of the US Army’s World Class Athlete Program.
No U.S. man has won an individual modern pentathlon Olympic medal since 1960. The last U.S. woman to make the Olympic podium was in 2000.