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Ben Nevis Race
The Ben Nevis Race is a mountain race that takes place annually, from the foot of Ben Nevis (the highest mountain in the British Isles) to the top, then back again. The course is 14km long and includes around 1,340metres of ascent. Up to six hundred people may compete in the event. History The first timed event on Ben Nevis was in 1895. William Swan, a barber from Fort William, made the first recorded timed ascent up the mountain on or around 27 September of that year, when he ran from the old post office in Fort William to the summit and back in 2 hours 41 minutes. The following years saw several improvements on Swan's record, but the first competitive race was held on 3 June 1898 under Scottish Amateur Athletic Association rules. Ten competitors ran the course, which started at the Lochiel Arms Hotel in Banavie and was thus longer than the route from Fort William; the winner was 21-year-old Hugh Kennedy, a gamekeeper at Tor Castle, who finished (coincidentally with Swan's or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finlay Wild
Finlay Wild (born 8 September 1984) is a Scottish runner and mountaineer who has been a British fell running champion. He has won the Ben Nevis Race eleven times. Early life and professional career Wild was born on 8 September 1984 in Thurso.Jonny Muir, "The Monarch of the Glen", ''The Mountains are Calling'' (Dingwall, 2018). He gained an affinity with the outdoors through his parents Roger Wild, a mountain guide, and Fiona (née Hinde), an accomplished hill runner who won the Three Peaks Race in 1981 and the Carnethy 5 in 1981 and 1982. He was educated at Fort William primary school and Lochaber High School, then graduated with a medical degree from the University of Aberdeen. He works as a general practitioner in Lochaber. Sporting career Wild first took part in a hill race at Ben Rinnes in 2005. He came to prominence through the Ben Nevis Race which he first won in 2010. He has won every subsequent edition of the race and his tally of eleven victories is higher than tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Nevis
Ben Nevis ( ; gd, Beinn Nibheis ) is the highest mountain in Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ..., the United Kingdom and the British Isles. The summit is above sea level and is the highest land in any direction for . Ben Nevis stands at the western end of the Grampian Mountains (Scotland), Grampian Mountains in the Scottish Highlands, Highland region of Lochaber, close to the town of Fort William, Highland, Fort William. The mountain is a popular destination, attracting an estimated 130,000 ascents a year, around three-quarters of which use the Mountain Track from Glen Nevis. The cliffs of the north face are among the highest in Scotland, providing classic scrambling, scrambles and rock climbing, rock climbs of all difficulties for climbers and mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Mudge
Angela Mudge (born 8 July 1970) is a Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner. Despite being born with birth defects in both legs, and finding track athletics not to her liking, she discovered her sport while a postgraduate student in Scotland in the mid-1990s, and developed rapidly. She has won the Scottish Hill Running Championships three times (1997, 1998, 2006),SHR championships page , SHR.UK.com the five times (1997–2000, 2008),List of Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Carson
Angela Brand-Barker (née Carson) (born 3 August 1961) is a British runner who was a national fell running champion and represented her country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. She has been considered the best female fell runner of her era in the "classic" fell races. Among Brand-Barker’s victories are the Ben Nevis Race, the Isle of Jura, the Peris Horseshoe, Wasdale and the Snowdon Race. She also holds the women’s record for the traverse of the Welsh 3000s, with a time of 5:28 set in 1989. Brand-Barker won the British Fell Running Championships in 1983, 1986, 1993 and 1994 and the English Championships in 1998. She competed several times at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Her best performance at the global championships was a sixth place in 1988 when the event was held in Keswick. Brand-Barker has also competed in mountain bike orienteering Mountain bike orienteering (MTB-O or MTBO) is an orienteering endurance racing sport on a mountain bike where naviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverley Redfern
Beverley Redfern (born c.1956 in Mtarfa, Malta) is a British mountain runner who won the 1990 World Mountain Running Championships. She also won the Ben Nevis Race in 1989, the Coniston Fell Race in 1993, and Sierre-Zinal The Sierre-Zinal race is an annual mountain running race that takes place in the Swiss canton of Valais each August. It is also known as the race of five 4000ers ("La course des cinq 4000"), as five peaks over four thousand meters are visible alon ..., also in 1993. Redfern still holds the women's course record for the Ben Lomond Hill Race which she set in 1990. References Living people British female mountain runners British fell runners People from Mtarfa Year of birth missing (living people) World Mountain Running Championships winners {{UK-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Anderson (runner)
Keith Anderson (born 10 August 1957) is a male British former runner who was the national fell running champion and competed in the marathon at the Commonwealth Games. Athletics career Anderson did not take up running until he was thirty, at which time he was overweight and had an unhealthy lifestyle. He made rapid progress and in 1989 won the Edale Skyline, Sedbergh Hills and Three Shires fell races. Also that year, he won the Ben Nevis Race, noting that losing three stones in weight had contributed greatly to his victory. In 1991, Anderson won the British Fell Running Championships. He is popularly considered one of the best descenders in the history of the sport and an investigation of downhill running speeds found his sustained descent rate of 1.365 m/s in the 1990 Pen y Fan Race, when he descended 580m vertically in 7:05, to be the fastest recorded in any race for which relevant information was available. He made more use of science and technology in his running th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Rigby (runner)
Mark Alan Rigby (born 1962) is a British runner who was a national hill running champion and who represented Scotland in the World Mountain Running Trophy. He ran during his time at Bradford Grammar School and later went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was captain of the cross country team. When still a student, he won the Lyke Wake Race. Rigby has won many of the most prestigious fell races, including Ben Nevis, Borrowdale, the Isle of Jura, Wasdale, the Langdale Horseshoe, Duddon Valley, the Three Shires, Glamaig, and Stuc a' Chroin. His winning times for Ben Nevis and Wasdale, both set in 1990, are among the fastest in the history of those races and have not been beaten since. He also won the navigational Lake District Mountain Trial and, in team events, he has been victorious in the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon with Rob Jebb and won the Kings of the Mountains award with Adrian Belton as the fastest runners in the Three Peaks Yacht Race. Rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Greenwood
Carol Greenwood (née Haigh; born 15 March 1966) is an English former runner who won the World Mountain Running Trophy and was twice a national fell running champion. Greenwood won the World Trophy in Morbegno in 1986. She also finished third at the 1993 World Trophy and second at the 1997 European Mountain Running Trophy. She ran internationally on other surfaces too, representing her country at the 1984 and 1994 World Cross Country Championships. She ran in the World Women's Road Race Championships in 1984, finishing seventh, and was on the winning team at the Yokohama International Women's Ekiden in the same year. Domestically, Greenwood won the first English Fell Running Championships in 1986. The middle of her running career was affected by sciatica but she returned to prominence in the early 1990s, winning at Ben Nevis Ben Nevis ( ; gd, Beinn Nibheis ) is the highest mountain in Scotland, the United Kingdom and the British Isles. The summit is above sea level an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ros Evans
Ros Evans (née Coats, born 17 January 1950) is a British athlete who competed in fell running, orienteering, ski-orienteering and cross-country skiing. She is also mother to British track cyclist, Neah Evans. Life Evans was born at Langbank, Renfrewshire. Her first outdoor pursuits were mountaineering and rock climbing. In order to improve her fitness for these activities, she began running in 1976 while at Jordanhill College where she underwent teacher training. She also began orienteering at around the same time. As a runner, Evans won the British Fell Running Championships in 1979 and 1981 and in 1979, she set a ladies’ record for the Bob Graham Round with a time of 20:31. She has won the Ben Nevis Race seven times, more than any other woman. Among her other fell race victories were Ben Lomond, the Langdale Horseshoe, Sedbergh Hills, Borrowdale, the Fairfield Horseshoe, the Kentmere Horseshoe, Pendle, and the Snowdon Race. She still holds the female record for the Cow Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Brand-Barker
Angela Brand-Barker (née Carson) (born 3 August 1961) is a British runner who was a national fell running champion and represented her country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. She has been considered the best female fell runner of her era in the "classic" fell races. Among Brand-Barker’s victories are the Ben Nevis Race, the Isle of Jura, the Peris Horseshoe, Wasdale and the Snowdon Race. She also holds the women’s record for the traverse of the Welsh 3000s, with a time of 5:28 set in 1989. Brand-Barker won the British Fell Running Championships in 1983, 1986, 1993 and 1994 and the English Championships in 1998. She competed several times at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Her best performance at the global championships was a sixth place in 1988 when the event was held in Keswick. Brand-Barker has also competed in mountain bike orienteering Mountain bike orienteering (MTB-O or MTBO) is an orienteering endurance racing sport on a mountain bike where navigation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Bland
Gavin Bland (born 21 November 1971) is a British fell runner who was a British and English champion and represented his country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Biography Gavin Bland was born in 1971 in Penrith, Cumbria, and grew up on his family's farm in Borrowdale. The prominent fell runner Billy Bland is his uncle, and several other members of his family were active in the sport. He attended Keswick School, leaving aged sixteen to work on the family farm. Bland was successful in races as a youth. His first senior race was in 1989. Perhaps the most notable performance in the early part of his running career was a second place in the junior race at the World Mountain Running Trophy in 1990. He also represented England in senior races at the World Mountain Running Trophy in 1991 and 1992. In 1991, Bland won the English Fell Running Championships and was second to Keith Anderson in the British Championships. In 1999, he won both the British and English Championships. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Rowell
Sarah Louise Rowell (born 19 November 1962) is a British former long-distance runner. Born in Hostert, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, she ran 2:39:11 at the age of 20 at the 1983 London Marathon. Later that year she won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 1983 Universiade in Edmonton. At the 1984 London marathon she improved her best to 2:31:28 to qualify for the British team for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. In the inaugural women's Olympic marathon, she finished 14th. She broke the British record when running her personal best for the marathon with 2:28:06, when finishing second behind Ingrid Kristiansen at the 1985 London Marathon. Later in her running career, Rowell was a prominent fell runner, winning the Three Peaks Race four times as well as Wasdale, Borrowdale and Ben Nevis. She finished second in the 1992 World Mountain Running Trophy and won both the British and English Fell Running Championships The first English Fell Running Championships were held in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
