The 22-year-old Swansea graduate comes from an accomplished sporting family. This spring she successfully defended her crown in San Antonio in Texas.Ĭaines won his world title in Lisbon in March, squeezing home ahead of the American Milton Campbell. Her first title came at Findon, Sussex, last year. The 22-year-old from Walton in Leicestershire took up the sport little more than four years ago but has twice been crowned world champion in the English sporting discipline. Remarkably, had Cook's score not counted at all, Britain would still have won the team title. The 23-year-old Georgina Harland, who had beaten Cook in the British championships in April, powered through in the final stages of the run to take third place at Millfield the Olympic bronze medallist Kate Allenby placed fifth and Sian Lewis was 14th. It was a blow, but she could hardly have left the sport in better heart. Cook, of course, was the star of the show, participating in relay and team victories before adding her first individual world title.Ĭook chose that moment to bow out. In a rare show of dominance the host nation came away with all three women's titles. If the Olympic victory of Stephanie Cook, right, was the finest hour for Britain's pentathletes, the world championships at Millfield School in Somerset in July ran it close. Modern pentathlon - women's individual (Cook), team (Allenby, Cook, Lewis) and relay (Allenby, Cook, Harland) Kate Allenby, Stephanie Cook, Georgina Harland and Sian Lewis Since switching to cable-skiing (pulled by an overhead cable rather than boat) at the age of 15 she has won seven national titles and eight European titles, and in 2000, only two days after her 20th birthday, she won the world slalom title. Adams, from Weybridge, took up waterskiing as a four-year-old in Corfu and won her first European trophy at 11.

List of world billiards champions