Mary Beth Iagorashvili

Mary Beth Iagorashvili was an American modern pentathlete who finished fourth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first time the event was contested by women at the Olympics. She also competed at the 2004 Athina Olympics. Born Mary Beth Larsen, she married Vaho Iagorashvili in 1999, who had won a bronze medal in modern pentathlon at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Iagorashvili attended school at Marquette University where she was on the sport shooting team and finished second in air pistol at the D-2 NCAA Championships in 1996. She was USA Champion in modern pentathlon in 1999 and 2002 and won the 1999 Pan American Games.

Studying chiropractic, Iagorashvili took a leave of absence from school to compete at Sydney, but then graduated from the Logan College of Chiropractic and later practiced chiropractic in Texas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.