Heather Fell

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

Early life Fell grew up in Tavistock, 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. She described this as giving her "the kick up the arse I needed", She also won a gold medal as part of the relay team, with Katy Livingston and Georgina Harland. In Kladno she went into the final discipline, the run, in 5th place, Results of 880 points in the fencing, 1328 points in the freestyle swimming, and 1144 points in the show jumping followed, leaving her in 2nd position, with a 19-second deficit on leader Schöneborn, heading into the 3000 m run. Fell completed the run in 10 minutes 19.24 seconds, a time worth 1244 points, giving her a final total of 5752 points. Despite closing the gap on Schöneborn by 9 seconds she was unable to catch her and take victory. She took up ironman triathlon and came second in the 30-34 women's category at the 2017 Standard Bank African Championship - qualifying for Kona in her first ironman distance race. She subsequently finished 36th in her age category at the 2017 Ironman World Championship As of late 2017 Heather has been co-presenting content on the Global Triathlon Network YouTube channel. In 2018 Heather became European Sprint Triathlon Champion in the 35-39 women's age category at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow.