by Modern Pentathlete Kate French, who won Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games, announced her sports retirement.
French also won five world championship medals and six European gold medals during her career, and won the World Cup title during a dominant 2021 in which she was classified as number one in the world.
The 33 -year -old man returned to sport after 18 months last summer to participate in Paris, but the illness hampered his chances of winning another medal and she withdrew from competition on the last day.
In an article on Instagram, French said that she was leaving sport “with a heart full of happiness and a head full of wonderful memories”.
She added: “There were a lot of ups and downs, but it was an incredible adventure and frankly, I would not change anything.”
The Frenchman, from Kent but now based in Wiltshire, has been involved in sport since he joined the British Pathway program in 2007.
In 2010, she was part of the team that won the world junior title before winning a first world’s senior gold medal in the team team in Taiwan in 2013.
French finished fifth in Rio in 2016 during his first Olympic games before storming the title in Tokyo five years later.
She swam a personal record at the 200m freestyle and finished more than 15 seconds in advance in the laser race to establish a new Olympic record for the total highest points of the event.
The French took a break in sport after winning gold in 2021, competing only twice the following year, before retreating in 2023, because she did “did not want to regret” not having tried for The Paris Games last summer.
“On the one hand of performance, Kate dominated sport, and on the one hand, she continues to inspire in the way she did,” said Jamie Cooke, Pentathlon performance manager GB .
The modern pentathlon is subject to a significant overhaul before the next games in Los Angeles in 2028, with a removal show-jjumping from five events to be replaced by an obstacle course in Ninja Warrior style.
