Jonathan Albon (born 19 April 1989) is a British
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 ...
and
obstacle course racer who has won three
Skyrunner World Series
The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...
.
Biography
Originally from
Great Dunmow
Great Dunmow is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is situated on the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, five miles east of London Stanst ...
in Essex, Albon later moved to live 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 ...
, Norway.
He twice won the final ranking of
Sky Extreme
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 ...
(2016 and 2017) and has once been the overall winner of the
Skyrunner World Series
The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...
. As an obstacle racer, he has won the Adventurey
world championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
in 2014,
2015,
2016,
2017, 2018 and 2019. He has also won the Spartan World Championships in 2014 and 2018.
Albon won the Trail World Championships
The IAU Trail World Championships are annual trail running World Championships, from 2007 up to 2015 was biennial, held for the first time in Huntsville, United States in 2007 and organised by International Association of Ultrarunners.
Edition ...
in 2019.
In 2021 Albon won the OCC at Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc
The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) is a single-stage mountain ultramarathon, first held in 2003, that follows the route of the Tour du Mont Blanc.
Since UTMB Group's partnership with IRONMAN Group in 2021, UTMB World Series will formally launch ...
.
2017 SWS Victory
Overall race by race.
References
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1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Essex
British sky runners
People from Great Dunmow
Skyrunning World Championships winners
British male long-distance runners
IAU Trail World Championships winners