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 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. 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

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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 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, 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)