Angela Brand-Barker (née Carson) (born 3 August 1961) is a British runner who was 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 represented her country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. She has been considered the best female fell runner of her era in the "classic" fell races. Among Brand-Barker’s victories are the Ben Nevis Race, the Isle of Jura, the Peris Horseshoe, Wasdale and the Snowdon Race. She also holds the women’s record for the traverse of the

Welsh 3000s The Welsh 3000s are the 15 Welsh Munros. These are mountains in Wales that are over . Geographically they fall within three ranges (the Snowdon Massif, the Glyderau, and the Carneddau), but close enough to make it possible to reach all 15 s ...

, with a time of 5:28 set in 1989. Brand-Barker 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 running, fell races. In 1976 this was changed to the runner's best ten category A races and furt ...

in 1983, 1986, 1993 and 1994 and the English Championships in 1998. She competed several times at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Her best performance at the global championships was a sixth place in 1988 when the event was held in Keswick. Brand-Barker has also competed in mountain bike orienteering, being the British long distance champion in 2015 and a bronze medallist at the World Masters Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships in 2012.

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1961 births Living people British fell runners British female mountain runners English female long-distance runners British female long-distance runners British orienteers Female orienteers Mountain bike orienteers Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Cumbria 20th-century English sportswomen {{England-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub