Kate Allenby
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| Full name | Katherine Fiona Allenby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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16 March 1974 , Devon, United Kingdom |
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| Olympic finals | 2004 Athens – Individual – 8th 2000 Sydney – Individual – bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kate Allenby MBE (born 16 March 1974), is a British modern pentathlete who competed in two Summer Olympics, taking the bronze medal at the 2000 Games and placing in 8th place in 2004. She has won medals at four World Championships, and after retiring from sport, she became a PE teacher in Bath, England.
She was born in , Devon, but lived in Australia during her childhood. Her father ran three London Marathons and played field hockey at the county level. Kate joined The Pony Club and began to compete in tetrathlon, which features all the same events as the modern pentathlon except for the fencing event. Her original inspiration for getting involved in athletics came from Sebastian Coe's victory in the men's 1500 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and she dreamt of competing at the Olympics.
She switched from tetrathon to modern pentathlon at the age of sixteen after her father suggested she tried fencing. She won the bronze medal at the 1994 Junior World Championship, going one place better during the following year taking the silver medal. Although she initially trained part-time while working as a fitness consultant, she received National Lottery funding in 1997 enabling her to take up full-time training.
In the same year, she claimed her first senior major victory, with individual gold at the European Championships in Moscow. It was the first time in 15 years a British woman had won a major championship title. Allenby then confirmed her status as one of the leading women in her sport by winning her second major title in 1998 at the World Cup Final
Whilst ranked as the world number three in her sport in 1999, she won the sporting section of the Cosmopolitan Woman of the year Awards.
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