Katy Livingston (born 10 January 1984 in

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) is a British

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who has competed at the

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Early life

Whilst at school she was a member of the running club, New Marske Harriers and swimming club, Saltburn and Marske, and played netball at a county level for

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. Livingston trains at the

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, where she completed a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development. She is a supporter of

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football club, and says that her earliest memory of major sporting event is going with her father to watch one of their matches.

Career

Between 2003 and 2005 Livingston competed at three World Junior Championships, winning team gold medals in 2003, in

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, and 2005, in

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and relay silver medals in 2003 and 2004. She also won team silver at the 2004 European Junior Championships. In May 2007 she won a silver at the

senior World Cup event. In June at the European Championships in

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she finished 6th in the individual event, qualifying her for the 2008 Olympics. She also won a silver medal in the team event, with Georgina Harland and

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, and gold in the team relay event, with Harland and

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. These performances led to her being named the

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’s modern pentathlon Olympic athlete of the year for 2007. However at the 2007 World Championships, in

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, she twice fell from her horse in the

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discipline, dropping from first to last place overall. In 2008, she won a gold medal in February's World Cup event in

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and went to the World Championships, held in June in

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, winning the individual bronze medal. At the

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, in

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, Livingston finished 7th overall in the women's individual event. In the first discipline, the air pistol

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, she scored 178 out of a possible 200, this corresponded to 1072 points and 17th place. Results of 808 points in the

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, 1282 points in the

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, and 1172 points in the equestrian followed, leaving her in 9th position heading into the 3000 m run. Livingston completed the run in 10 minutes 29.47, a time worth 1204 points, giving her a final total of 5548 points.

Other work

In December 2011, Livingstone was one of 12 British female sporting celebrities who posed for Clara Maidment a charity calendar in aid of

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, in the lingerie of

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, wearing jewellery by

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and

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