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Weale competed for Great Britain at the, in Beijing, China, and finished 10th in the men"s modern pentathlon.
Weale competed for Great Britain at the, in Beijing, China, and finished 10th in the men"s modern pentathlon.
He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. His identical twin Chris is a goalkeeper who has played for Leicester City F.C. and Bristol City F.C. as well as home club Yeovil Town F.C.
Weale began competing in pentathlons in 2000 after progressing from biathlons and triathlons. Riding was the last of the five disciplines that he took up.
He failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens after suffering a stress fracture to his navicular a month before the qualifying competitions.
The injury caused him to miss two years of competition. Weale qualified for the Games by virtue of his world ranking after places had been allocated to winners of qualifying events.
Weale and Nick Woodbridge became the first British men to compete in modern pentathlon at the Olympics since Richard Phelps in 1996. At the Games Weale"s best finish in any discipline was eighth in both the 200 metres freestyle swimming, with a time of 2 minutes 2.87 seconds, and in the run.
He finished the competition in 10th position, 220 points behind gold medallist Andrey Moiseyev of Russia.
He had surgery for a knee injury two months after the Olympics and finished the year fifth in the world rankings.