Background
She is a supporter of Sheffield Wednesday football club, and says that her earliest memory of major sporting event is going with her father to watch one of their matches.
She is a supporter of Sheffield Wednesday football club, and says that her earliest memory of major sporting event is going with her father to watch one of their matches.
Livingston trains at the University of Bath, where she completed a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development.
In June at the European Championships in Riga she finished 6th in the individual event, qualifying her for the 2008 Olympics. These performances led to her being named the British Olympic Association’s modern pentathlon Olympic athlete of the year for 2007. However at the 2007 World Championships, in Berlin, she twice fell from her horse in the equestrian discipline, dropping from first to last place overall.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing, Livingston finished 7th overall in the women"s individual event.
In the first discipline, the air pistol shooting, she scored 178 out of a possible 200, this corresponded to 1072 points and 17th place. Results of 808 points in the fencing, 1282 points in the freestyle swimming, 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.
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 Cleveland.