Steph Cook

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Olympic medal record
Women's Modern Pentathlon
Competitor for Great Britain
Gold	2000 Sydney	Individual

Stephanie Cook MBE (born 7 February 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 individual world and European titles in 2001 before retiring from the sport. Her particular strength was running.

In the New Year Honours 2001, Cook was appointed as a member of the Order of The British Empire for services to Modern Pentathlon^[1]

She was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Medicine) from the University of Bath in 2008.

References

↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 56070. p. 15. 30 December 2000.

Kubatko, Justin. "Steph Cook Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 January 2010.

v t e Olympic Champions in Women's Modern Pentathlon

2000: Steph Cook (GBR) 2004: Zsuzsanna Vörös (HUN) 2008: Lena Schöneborn (GER) 2012: Laura Asadauskaitė (LTU)

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Name	Cook, Steph
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Short description	British modern pentathlete
Date of birth	7 February 1972
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