Steph Cook

Stephanie Jayne Cook, MBE (born 7 February 1972) is a British retired modern pentathlete. She was the Olympic champion at this event in 2000.

Cook was born in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. She was forced to give up the sport due to a series of stress fractures in a rib.

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

Although reported as "having put her medical career on hold", she was supported through her training from 1998 to 2000 by consultant surgeon Mark Whiteley who funded a research job for her in Guildford, during which she published three papers with him. She paid him tribute in 2002 during the TV programme This is Your Life.

Cook won the gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympics in the women's modern pentathlon, In 2008, she was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Medicine) from the University of Bath.