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](_blank)
, SHR.UK.com 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 ...
five times (1997–2000, 2008),
[List of British Champions](_blank)
British Fellrunning Association website and holds the women's record on more than thirteen courses in Scotland alone.
[Profile at scottishhillracing.co.uk](_blank)
/ref> On the international stage she won the Women's World Mountain Running Trophy in 2000,["16th World Mountain Running Trophy 2000"](_blank)
, WMRA website the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in 2005,["Munich Olympian finds Masters touch"](_blank)
Mike Addison, ''Westmoreland Gazette'', 16 September 2005 and the Buff Skyrunner World Series
The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude long-distance running, endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Sky ...
in 2006 and 2007.["Mejía and Mudge, new 2006 World Champions"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series
The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude long-distance running, endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Sky ...
website news, 1 October 2006["Kilian Jornet and Angela Mundge, champions of the Buff Skyrunner 2007"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 24 September 2007 She was named on a list of "100 things we still love about sport" by ''The Observer
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'' newspaper in June 2008.["100 things we still love about sport"](_blank)
''The Observer
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'', 1 June 2008
Early years
Mudge's start in life did not augur well for a future in endurance running, after she was born with pedal defects; both of Angela's feet and one of her twin sister Janice's were pointing backwards. She has commented that " got a bit squashed in the womb
The uterus (from Latin ''uterus'', plural ''uteri'') or womb () is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans that accommodates the embryonic and fetal development of one or more embryos until birth. The uter ...
", and for the first few years of their lives both girls were required to have their legs in braces and plaster
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to rectify this.["Left to climb her own very lonely mountain"](_blank)
Fiona Russell, ''The Sunday Times
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'', 1 October 2006
When she was a teenager she raced on the track, but gave it up out of dissatisfaction with "running in circles".["A mountain to climb? Mudge now at her peak"](_blank)
Doug Gillon, '' The Herald'', 23 September 2005 Even cross-country courses were insufficiently challenging, and it was only following her graduation from the University of Leicester
, mottoeng = So that they may have life
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with a BSc
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in chemistry
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, when she moved north to the University of Stirling
The University of Stirling (, gd, Oilthigh Shruighlea (abbreviated as Stir or Shruiglea, in post-nominals) is a public university in Stirling, Scotland, founded by royal charter in 1967. It is located in the Central Belt of Scotland, built w ...
to obtain her master's degree, that she discovered hill running and began to fulfil her potential.["Mudge makes Albert Hall date"](_blank)
''BBC Sport
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'', 15 January 2001 When she subsequently moved to the University of Edinburgh
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to study for her PhD, she joined the Carnethy Hill Running Club, where she remains an active member and competitor. She obtained her doctorate in 2000.
Although born and raised in Devon
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, Mudge has only ever represented Scotland at international level, commenting that " would've been tough to have gone back down south and tried to gain selection there. Once I started running for Scotland there seemed no point in changing because they gave me my opportunity."["Champion Mudge remains down to earth"](_blank)
, Simon Buckland, ''The Sunday Times'', 7 January 2001
National and international career
Mudge came late to hill running by comparison with more mainstream athletics competitors, not recording results until her mid-twenties, but developed quickly thereafter. Placed only 49th in the British Fell Running Championship in 1995, she won the event four times in succession from 1997–2000. In between times, she scored a fourth-place finish in the 1997 European Mountain Running Trophy, and also won the Scottish Hill Running Championships in 1997 and 1998, and the Scottish Cross Country Championship in 1999.[Profile at scottishathletics.org.uk](_blank)
/ref> She showed equally rapid development on the international stage, placing 46th in the 11th World Mountain Running Trophy when it was held in Scotland in 1995, five years prior to winning the event outright in 2000.[Statistics for Angela Mudge](_blank)
, World Mountain Running Association website
She continued her international success in 1999, the year she broke the course record for the prestigious Mount Kinabalu Climbathon
The Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 1987 (went international in 1988). It runs every year on Mount Kinabalu (Malaysia) in October, race valid for the Skyrunner World Seri ...
in Sabah
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, Malaysia
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, as she won the race and the US$
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2,500 prize.[1999 Mount Kinabalu climbathon report](_blank)
Douglas Barry Mudge also triumphed in similar record-breaking style in the 2001 ''Cinq 4,000s'' in Sierre-Zinal, Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, becoming the first woman to achieve a sub-three-hour time on the course.[Sierre-Zinal 2001 results](_blank)
(French)
In the European Mountain Running Trophy, her best results have been as runner up in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Carinthia
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, Austria
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in 1999,[British Medallists/Placings in World and European Mountain Running Trophies](_blank)
gbrathletics.com website which she repeated in 2001 in Slovenia
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, finishing behind Russian Svetlana Demidenko,[2001 European Mountain Running Trophy results](_blank)
, WMRA website and again in 2003 in Trento
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, Italy, when Belgium
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's Catherine Lallemand won.[2003 European Mountain Running Trophy results](_blank)
, WMRA website She won the women's World Mountain Running Trophy in Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
, Germany against expectations in 2000; as with all even-numbered years, the Trophy race followed the international style, which typically only involves an ascent. Mudge is more experienced in British fell-running, which includes running up ''and'' down hills, but found success despite being unable to exploit her greater descending experience. Mudge herself described the WMRT win as "the pinnacle of my career" in a June 2008 interview.["Run for the hills"](_blank)
Iain Clark, ''In the Winning Zone'', June 2008
Following her World Mountain Running Trophy win, she was one of only five Britons nominated at the 2001 Laureus World Sports Awards
The Laureus World Sports Awards is an annual award ceremony honouring individuals and teams from the world of sports along with sporting achievements throughout the year. It was established in 1999 by Laureus Sport for Good Foundation foundin ...
, alongside football
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er David Beckham
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, rower
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Steve Redgrave
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, triple jump
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er Jonathan Edwards and boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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. However, she was unable to attend the ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall
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in London because she had already booked a long-planned holiday to the Antipodes
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and, she claimed, "...didn't possess a little black dress, and would only have wandered around collecting autographs."
She finished second behind New Zealand
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's Melissa Moon in the 2003 World Mountain Running Trophy, held in Girdwood, Alaska
Girdwood is a resort town within the southern extent of the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located near the end of the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet, Girdwood lies in a valley in the southwestern Chugach Mountains, surrounde ...
. Compatriots Tracey Brindley
Tracey Brindley (born 25 August 1972) is a British runner who has been a medallist at the World Mountain Running Trophy and a national fell running champion.
Brindley won the individual bronze and a team gold medal at the World Trophy in Girdw ...
finished third and Lyn Wilson eighteenth, and these combined results meant Scotland won the Women's Team championship.[World Mountain Running Trophy 2003 results](_blank)
, WMRT website She also won the 2003 Pikes Peak Marathon
The Pikes Peak Ascent and Marathon is a trail running competition that begins at the base of Pikes Peak, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and climbs over 7,815 feet (2382 m) to the top of the 14,115 foot (4302 m) peak. Since 1956, the event takes pl ...
, which she only entered as a warm up for the Alaska race.["On the Trail With... Angela Mudge"](_blank)
, ''Running Times'' article written by Mudge, published December 2003 Her victory in 4h 19m 38s not only set an age-group record for the peak, it marked the only defeat in six years for Los Alamos, New Mexico
Los Alamos is an census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as the development and creation place of the atomic bomb—the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Labora ...
runner Erica Larson Erica Larson Baron (born August 11, 1971) is a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a champion mountain runner. She has won the Pikes Peak marathon on five occasions, more than any other woman since the event's inception in 1959. , the most successful woman in the event's history.["Race gets ugly after women reach summit"](_blank)
Odeen Domingo, ''Colorado Springs Gazette
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'', 18 August 2003
2005 injuries
Mudge missed much of the 2005 season, first recuperating from an operation to rehabilitate a damaged knee which left her on crutches, and then succumbing to a bout of plantar fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis or plantar heel pain (PHP) is a disorder of the plantar fascia, which is the connective tissue which supports the arch of the foot. It results in pain in the heel and bottom of the foot that is usually most severe with the f ...
between May and July. Of her surgery, Mudge said: "I'd worn away all my knee cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue. In tetrapods, it covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints as articular cartilage, and is a structural component of many body parts including the rib cage, the neck an ...
– more to do with my running style than the sport itself. I was running on the bare bone of my femur
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, so the surgeon drilled a lot of holes, which stimulates scar tissue, and eventually, I could run again. My knee was more painful afterwards than before. I was prepared for that, but was allowed to run for only ten minutes even months after the operation. I deliberately did not ask about the success or failure rate in order to keep a positive frame of mind. It was only six months later that a physiotherapist
Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is one of the allied health professions. It is provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through physical examination, diagnosis, management, prognosis, patient ...
told me there were lots of people for whom the operation did not work."
On her return from injury, she won three races in Switzerland and placed second in their National Championship. Her prizes included a large raclette
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cheese and a CHF50 voucher for a local florist. She had to decline the latter, as she had no place for a vase of flowers—she lives in a tent
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when touring the circuit, cooking over a gas stove
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and travelling to events by bicycle.
Although she missed most of the summer, she recovered sufficiently to win the fifth World Masters Mountain Running Championships in England's Lake District
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in September.
Skyrunning
For 2006 Mudge became a member of the Team SaabSalomon Adventure Running Team, and competed in the Buff Skyrunner World Series
The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude long-distance running, endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Sky ...
, a grand prix of eight high altitude
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endurance races around the globe.[Team SaabSalomon website](_blank)
She did not participate in the opening race in Hidalgo
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, Mexico
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, but was victorious in four successive subsequent rounds in Zegama
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, Spain,["Mexico’s Mejia does it again"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 30 May 2006 Valposchiavo, Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
,["Schiessl and Mudge, winners in Valposchiavo"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 11 June 2006 Nagano Nagano may refer to:
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, Japan,["Japan – winners Dapit and Mudge"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 26 June 2006 and Canazei, the Dolomites, Italy,["Dolomites SkyRace. Victory and record for Agustí Roc and Angela Mudge"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 24 July 2006 breaking the course record on each occasion. She missed two subsequent events following the loss of her twin sister to cancer,
interview with Angela Mudge, Fiona Russell, '' Daily Record'', 15 January 2007 but her third place in the 20th Mount Kinabalu
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Climbathon in Malaysia
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in the final event of the season ensured she won the Series overall,["Anna Pichtrova Clinches Fifth Crown At Mt Kinabalu Climbathon"](_blank)
, Malaysian National News Agency, 30 September 2006 along with the €3000 prize. She also regained her Scottish Hill Running Championship title in 2006, winning all four of the events she entered.
Team SaabSalomon retained Mudge's services for the 2007 Skyrunner Series, and she subsequently won the first three races in which she competed, in Berga
Berga () is the capital of the ''comarca'' (county) of Berguedà, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is bordered by the municipalities of Cercs, Olvan, Avià, Capolat and Castellar del Riu.
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, Berguedà
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, in the Catalan
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region of Spain,["Raúl García and Angela Mudge, winners in Berga"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 20 May 2007 Vallnord
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in Andorra,["Kilian Jornet and Angela Mudge won in Andorra"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 22 July 2007 and the Dolomites
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in Italy.["Mitja Kosovelj and Angela Mudge win the Dolomites SkyRace"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 30 July 2007 A second-place finish in the Zegama-Aizkorri
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Alpine Marathon was enough to see her retain her title in 2007.
After her skyrunning success, Mudge travelled to Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
in November 2007 to participate in the twelfth Everest Marathon
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, the world's highest marathon which starts only two hours from Everest Base Camp
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, at an altitude of .["Peak performance"](_blank)
Bryn Palmer, ''BBC Sport
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'', 8 December 2007 She finished eighth overall, the first woman and the second westerner out of 80 participants, setting a course record of 5h 3m, thirteen minutes ahead of the previous mark.["Mudge: toughest race ever"](_blank)
, Kevin Ferrie, '' The Herald'', 11 December 2007["Scottish woman on top of world"](_blank)
Melanie Reid, ''The Times
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'', 14 January 2008
She was an occasional competitor in the 2008 series, winning in Valposchiavo, Switzerland,["Jornet and Mudge, win at Valmalenco-Valposchiavo"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 6 June 2008 and her home event in Fort William, Scotland
Fort William ( gd, An Gearasdan ; "The Garrison") formerly ( gd, Baile Mairi) and ( gd, Gearasdan dubh Inbhir-Lochaidh) (Lit. "The Black Garrison of Inverlochy"), ( sco, The Fort), formerly ( sco, Maryburgh) is a town in Lochaber in the Scottish ...
.["Agusti Roc and Angela Mudge winners of the Ben Nevis Race in Fort William"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 6 September 2008 She also finished second in the other two races she entered, the WMRA Grand Prix in Saillon-Ovronaz, Switzerland,["The world-wide èlit of the Skyrunning met in Sierre Zinal"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 13 August 2008 and the ''Sky Marathon de la Grigne'' in Italy.["Kilian Jornet and Corinne Favre winners of World Series 2008"](_blank)
, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 23 September 2008 However, a record-breaking performance by rival Corinne Favre
Corinne Favre (born 15 December 1970) is a French professional ski instructor, competitive ski mountaineer, in the latter denied Mudge a third successive championship.
In domestic competition, she became the British Fell Running Champion for the fifth time in 2008,["Sam Murphy Joins Angela Mudge On A Fell-Running Adventure"](_blank)
, Sam Murphy, ''Financial Times
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'', December 2008 after winning all four races in which she competed.["2008 Championships"](_blank)
, Fellrunner.org.uk
Selected results
World Cup wins
References
External links
Personal website of Angela Mudge
Carnethy Running Club website
List of Scottish medallists
at Scottish Athletics website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mudge, Angela
Living people
1970 births
Sportspeople from Tavistock
British fell runners
British female mountain runners
British female long-distance runners
Scottish female long-distance runners
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Stirling
Alumni of the University of Leicester
British sky runners
Female ultramarathon runners
Trail runners
World Mountain Running Championships winners