Jasmin Karina Paris (born November 1983) is a British runner who has been 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 who has set records for the

Bob Graham Round The Bob Graham Round is a fell running challenge in the English Lake District. It is named after Bob Graham (1889–1966), a Keswick guest-house owner, who in June 1932 broke the Lakeland Fell record by traversing 42 fells within a 24-hour period ...

and the Ramsay Round. She is well known in

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as a fell runner, but became known on the international stage as a

sky runner Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons and ...

after her victory in the

2016 Skyrunner World Series The 2016 Skyrunner World Series was the 15th edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunner World Series, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation from 2002. From this edition is included a new category, Sky Extreme. Results ...

(Sky Extreme) and bronze medal at the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships (Sky Ultra). She received significant media attention for her overall win in the 2019

Spine Race The Spine Race is a winter ultramarathon held over a distance of around from Edale, England, to Kirk Yetholm, Scotland, along the Pennine Way. Participants are allowed seven days to complete the course. The race has been held annually since 2012 ...

Biography

She is the daughter of mathematicians Jeff Paris and Alena Vencovská. While at the

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, Paris was a member of the Open Air Club which encouraged outdoor pursuits. However, she did not start running until she left university in 2008 and was working in

Glossop Glossop is a market town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is located east of Manchester, north-west of Sheffield and north of the county town, Matlock. Glossop lies near Derbyshire's borders with Cheshire, Greater Manches ...

near her home town of Hadfield in Derbyshire, although she had done some backpacking and walked a lot in the

fell A fell (from Old Norse ''fell'', ''fjall'', "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or Moorland, moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle o ...

s. After a twelve-month sabbatical in

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, she returned to the UK, moved to

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in 2010 and began to take running more seriously. She has performed particularly well in the longer fell races. Her wins include

Wasdale Wasdale () is a valley and civil parish in the western part of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. The River Irt flows through the valley to its estuary at Ravenglass. A large part of the main valley floor is occupied by Wastwa ...

, 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 ...

Borrowdale Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cumberland. It is sometimes referred to as ''Cumberland Borrowdale'' t ...

, the

Langdale Horseshoe The Langdale Horseshoe is an annual Lake District fell race that starts and finishes at the Old Dungeon Ghyll. The course climbs to Stickle Tarn before heading to Thunacar Knott, Esk Hause shelter, Bowfell, Crinkle Crags and Pike of Blisco. ...

, the

Isle of Jura Jura ( ; gd, Diùra; sco, Jura) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and northeast of Islay. With an area of , and 196 inhabitants recorded in the 2011 census, Jura is more sparsely populated than Islay, and is one of t ...

and the

Ennerdale Horseshoe The Ennerdale Horseshoe Fell Race is an annual Lake District fell race held in June, starting and finishing at the Scout Camp near Ennerdale Water. The route is approximately in length with of ascent and takes in checkpoints at Great Borne, ...

and she has won the Lakeland Classics Trophy series. Paris won the Scottish Hill Running Championships in 2014 and 2015 and in 2015 and 2018 she 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 2015, Paris began to be more prominent in ultra distance running. In April that year, she set a new women's record of 11:09 in the

Fellsman The Fellsman is an annual organised walk and fell race of about sixty miles in the Yorkshire Dales from Ingleton to Threshfield. History The event was devised by Don Thompson and the Brighouse District (Brigantes) Rover Crew and the first hi ...

, finishing fourth overall, and in June, she was the first female finisher and second overall in the five-day

Dragon's Back Race The Dragon's Back Race (in Welsh, Ras Cefn y Ddraig) is a multi-day running race across mountains of Wales, from North Wales to South Wales. The 2019 race was from Conwy to Llandeilo, taking place over five days. The ascents in it would add u ...

in Wales. On 23 April 2016, Paris completed the

in a time of 15:24, taking more than two-and-a-half hours off the women's record previously held by

Nicky Spinks Nicola "Nicky" Spinks (born 22 April 1967) is a British long-distance runner, specialising in fell running, who set women's records for the major fell-running challenges the Ramsay Round, the Paddy Buckley Round and the Bob Graham Round. She he ...

. The record stood until July 2020 when Beth Pascall ran the Bob Graham Round in 14:34. Paris ran the Ramsay Round on 18 June 2016 in a time of 16:13. This was not only a new women's record, but an overall fastest known time for the route. It remained the overall record until 2019, when Es Tresidder ran the Round a minute quicker. In July 2016, Paris took third place in the Buff Epic Trail 105K which was the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships race for the ultra category. In August, she finished sixth at the UTMB, her first 100-mile race. In September, Paris was crowned champion in the Extreme series of the

, having won both the

Tromsø SkyRace The Tromsø SkyRace is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2014. It runs every year in Tromsø (Norway) in August and consists of four races both valid for the Skyrunner World Series. Races * ''Hamperokken Skyrace' ...

and the Glen Coe Skyline. In October, she set a new women's record for the Paddy Buckley Round with a time of 18:33. Paris set a new race record in the 2019 Spine Race along the

Pennine Way The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland. The trail stretches for from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland National Park and ends at Kir ...

, finishing the on 16 January in 83 hours 12 minutes and 23 seconds. Becoming the first woman to win the event overall, she surpassed the previous record of 95 hours 17 minutes set by

Eoin Keith Eoin Keith is an Irish ultramarathon runner who won the Spine Race, a winter run along the Pennine Way, in 2016, 2019 and 2022. His 2022 time for the race was 92:40:30 (3 days, 20 hr, 40.5 mins). Other achievements include winning a 170 km ...

in 2016 and the previous female record of 109 hours 54 minutes achieved by

Carol Morgan Carol Morgan is an Irish ultrarunner, who specialises in non-stop mountain ultramarathons 100 km and longer, often in challenging conditions with significant ascents / descents. Born in Dublin in 1973, where she trained as a nurse, she is ...

in 2017. During breaks in the race she expressed milk for her baby. Paris completed a circuit of twenty-nine

Munros A Munro () is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nevis ...

in the

Cairngorms The Cairngorms ( gd, Am Monadh Ruadh) are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland closely associated with the mountain Cairn Gorm. The Cairngorms became part of Scotland's second national park (the Cairngorms National Park) on 1 S ...

in July 2021, setting a women's record for climbing the most Munros and returning to the starting point within twenty-four hours. Later the same year, she won the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa in Switzerland. In March 2022, Paris competed in the

Barkley Marathons The Barkley Marathons is an ultramarathon trail race held each year in Frozen Head State Park in Morgan County, Tennessee. The course, which varies from year to year, consists of five loops of the 20 miles course for a total of . Some racers hav ...

in Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee. She completed a "Fun Run" of three loops, the first time for nine years that a woman had done so. In March 2023, she was only the second woman ever to attempt a fourth loop but couldn't complete it within the time limit. Paris was sponsored by Inov-8 until 2022, when she opted to run for the Green Runners, an environmental group of which she is a co-founder. In 2016, Paris married Konrad Rawlik who is also a runner with a win in the

. They have two children. Paris is a small-animal vet working at the

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and studied

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Jasmin Paris
profile at Power of 10 {{DEFAULTSORT:Paris, Jasmin British fell runners British female mountain runners British ultramarathon runners 1983 births Living people British sky runners People from Hadfield, Derbyshire Sportspeople from Derbyshire