Angela Brand-Barker (née Carson) (born 3 August 1961) is a British runner who was a national

fell running Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. The name arises from the origins of the English sport o ...

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 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 hu ...

, the

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, the

Peris Horseshoe The Peris Horseshoe is an annual fell running race in Snowdonia, Wales. The race starts and finishes in Llanberis and has a distance of approximately 28 km and 2590 m of ascent. It is usually run in September. The event is organised by Ery ...

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and the

Snowdon Race The Snowdon Race ( cy, Ras Yr Wyddfa) is a ten-mile endurance running competition in Gwynedd, from Llanberis to the peak of Snowdon. Contestants must make the five miles up the Llanberis Path to the summit ( above sea level) and return down. Cur ...

. She also holds the women’s record for the traverse of the

Welsh 3000s Welsh 3000s are the 15 Furths#Furth mountains by country, Welsh Furths (or Welsh Munros). These are mountains in Wales that are over , and which are on the Scottish Mountaineering Club's (SMC) official list of Furths . Geographically they fall ...

, with a time of 5:28 set in 1989. Brand-Barker won the

British Fell Running Championships The first British Fell Running Championships, then known as Fell Runner of the Year, were held in 1972 and the scoring was based on results in all fell races. In 1976 this was changed to the runner's best ten category A races and further changes t ...

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

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when the event was held in Keswick. Brand-Barker has also competed in

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, being the British long distance champion in 2015 and a bronze medallist at the World Masters Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships in 2012.

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