Steph Cook

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Olympic medal record
Women's Modern Pentathlon
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Gold	2000 Sydney	Individual

Stephanie Cook MBE (born February 7, 1972 in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland) is a retired modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist.

She was educated at Bedford High School; The Perse School for Girls; Peterhouse, Cambridge and then Lincoln College, Oxford, where she read medicine.

Having rowed at Cambridge she took up modern pentathlon whilst completing her course in clinical medicine at Oxford. She was president of the Oxford University Modern Pentathlon Association 1995-1996. She won the women's individual title in the Varsity match against Cambridge in 1997.

Having put her medical career on hold, she won the gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympics in the women's modern pentathlon, the first time that the event was included in the games. She went on to win the world championships in 2001 before retiring from the sport. Her particular strength was running.

She was awarded an MBE in the 2001 New Year Honours.