Modern Pentathlon

Modern Pentathlon: Daniel Brittain

What got you interested in the competition?

I had just finished University and my father came in from work one afternoon and had heard on the radio that there had been an Olympic competition announced I researched it and started working on my designs that afternoon.

Why did you choose Modern Pentathlon for your design?

I picked Modern Pentathlon because of the challenge of getting five sports onto one coin.

What was the inspiration behind your idea?

I looked at all the individual sports and really wanted to get one movement to create all five sports so I went on the internet, put each sport into a search engine and discovered a picture of a swimmer who had quite a large splash behind him so I then visualised and played back and forth a horse jumping out of the water so I quickly jotted it all down and quickly and built in the other three sports to create the five sports for Modern Pentathlon.

How does it feel to know your coin is going to be in the pockets of millions of people for years to come?

I picked Modern Pentathlon because of the challenge of getting five sports onto one coin.