Lena Schöneborn (born 11 April 1986 in

Troisdorf Troisdorf () is a city in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Troisdorf is located approximately 22 kilometers south of Cologne and 13 kilometers north east of Bonn. Division of the city Troisdorf consi ...

West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

) is a German pentathlete, who won the gold medal in the

Modern Pentathlon The modern pentathlon is an Summer Olympics, Olympic multisport that consists of five events: fencing (one-touch épée followed by direct elimination), freestyle swimming, obstacle course racing, Laser pistol (sport), laser pistol shooting, and ...

at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

. She is living in Berlin and besides Pentathlon she is studying marketing. She won gold at the Women's Final of the Modern Pentathlon European Championships 2011, held in

Medway Medway is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England. It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of City of Roche ...

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* * 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Troisdorf German female modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon Modern pentathletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists Modern pentathletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-Olympic-medalist-stub