Heather Fell

Heather Fell

Medal record
Women's modern pentathlon
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Individual
World Championships
	2012 Rome	Team
	2008 Budapest	Team
	2008 Budapest	Relay
	2009 London	Team
	2010 Chengdu	Team
World Cup
	2008 Millfield	Individual
	2007 Moscow	Individual
	2008 Kladno	Individual
European Championships
	2007 Riga	Relay
	2007 Riga	Individual
	2009 Leipzig	Individual
	2012 Sofia	Team
	2010 Debrecen	Team
	2012 Sofia	Relay

Heather Fell (born 3 March 1983 in Plymouth, England) is a British modern pentathlete. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the women's modern pentathlon event.

Fell grew up in , Devon, where she was taught to ride and shoot, both disciplines in the pentathlon, by the parents of the 2000 Olympic pentathlon bronze medallist Kate Allenby. Heather has a degree in physiotherapy from Brunel University.

After initial success at junior level, including two gold and one silver medal in the 2003 World Junior Championships in Athens, Fell nearly gave up the sport in 2006 when, due to a series of shin splint injuries, her funding was cut by UK Sport. She described this as giving her "the kick up the arse I needed", and, forced to stop training at the University of Bath's facilities due to the cost of living in the city, she moved back home with her parents, funding her continued training with three part-time jobs; as a swimming coach, a barmaid and a physiotherapist. Her funding was not restored until she qualified for the Olympics.

2007 brought her first medal success in a World Cup event, with bronze in Moscow. Fell won an individual silver medal at the 2007 European Championships in Riga, reaching the Olympic qualifying standard in doing so. She also won a gold medal as part of the relay team, with Katy Livingston and Georgina Harland.

In 2008 Fell won medals at two events on the World Cup circuit, gold at Millfield and bronze in Kladno. In Kladno she went into the final discipline, the run, in 5th place, but moved up two positions with a personal best, she had also set a PB in the swimming. At the World Championships, in Budapest, she finished just outside the medals in 4th place in the individual event but picked up silver medals as a member of the squads in team event, with Georgina Harland and Mhairi Spence, and team relay event, with Katy Livingston and Spence. In January 2014 Fell announced her retirement to pursue a career in media.

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