Robert Jebb (born 28 February 1975 in

Bingley Bingley is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which had a population of 18,294 at the 2011 Census. Bingley railwa ...

) is an

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fell runner 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 ...

, skyrunner, and cyclo-cross rider. He has won the annual Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross in the

Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954. The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising from the Vale of York w ...

a record twelve times since 2000,"Results and Roll of Honour"
3 Peaks Cyclo-cross official website is a four-time-winner of the Three Peaks Race in the same region and broke Catalan dominance 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 ...

when he became champion in 2005."Robert Jebb and Corinne Favre, new world champions"
BuffSkyrunner.com, 11 October 2005 Jebb was encouraged to take up running by his father Peter who performed well in long races on rough terrain and won 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 ...

in 1981. Rob joined Bingley Harriers in 1984 and finished next-to-last in his first junior race at Buckden Pike. His results improved somewhat in the years following but he did not display outstanding ability as a youngster. By 1998, Jebb had progressed well enough to finish sixth in the British Fell Running Championships and third in the English Championships. He also represented England that year at the Knockdhu International race and ran at the European Mountain Running Trophy in both 1999 and 2000. He has also run at the

World Trophy The World Trophy is a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Newbury over a distance of 5 furlongs and 34 yards (1,037 metres), and it is ...

. Jebb 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 2003, 2006 and 2013 and the English Championships in 2006 and 2008. He has also won the Ben Nevis Race four times. In July 2016, Jebb completed the Bob Graham Round in 14 hours 30 minutes, then the second-fastest round of all time and the first time any runner had come within an hour of Billy Bland's 1982 record of 13 hours 53 minutes.

References

External links

"Rob Jebb — First Britain to become the overall Sky Running Champion"
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Rob Jebb's Scottish Hill Racing profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jebb, Rob Living people 1975 births Cyclists from Yorkshire Cyclo-cross cyclists British fell runners English male long-distance runners British male mountain runners English male cyclists British sky runners