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 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. Greenwood won the World Trophy in

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. 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

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and

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World Cross Country Championships World Athletics Cross Country Championships is the most important competition in international cross country running. Formerly held annually and organised by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF), it was inaugurated in 1973, when it replaced the Int ...

. She ran in the World Women's Road Race Championships in 1984, finishing seventh, and was on the winning team at the

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in the same year. Domestically, Greenwood won the first

English Fell Running Championships The first English Fell Running Championships were held in the 1986 season, based on results in various fell races of different lengths over the year. The winners have been as follows. *All Jeska's athletics results were declared null and void w ...

in 1986. The middle of her running career was affected by

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but she returned to prominence in the early 1990s, winning at

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and the

Three Peaks Race The Three Peaks Race is a fell race held annually on the last weekend in April, starting and finishing in Horton in Ribblesdale. The course traverses the Yorkshire Three Peaks. The present distance is about 23 miles (37 km). The first kn ...

and having a run of thirty-eight consecutive victories in 1993, when she repeated her English Championships success. One of her wins that year was at 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 ...

, where she set a record time of 1:12:48.Steve Chilton, ''It's a Hill, Get Over It'' (Dingwall, 2013), 150-51, 332; Hugh Dan MacLennan, ''The Ben Race'' (Fort William, 1994), 191.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Carol British fell runners British female mountain runners 1966 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people)