(1973-12-17) 17 December 1973 (age 50) Davenham, Cheshire, England
Height
5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[1]
Weight
119 lb (54 kg)[1]
Spouse
Gary Lough
Children
2
Sport
Country
Great Britain England
Club
Bedford & County Athletic Club Nike, Beaverton[1]
Retired
April 2015
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
1996 5000 m, 5th 2000 10,000 m, 4th 2004 Marathon, DNF 10,000 m, DNF 2008 Marathon, 23rd
World finals
1993 3000 m, 7th 1995 5000 m, 5th 1997 5000 m, 4th 1999 10,000 m, Silver 2001 10,000 m, 4th 2005 10,000 m, 9th Marathon, Gold
Personal bests
3000 m: 8:22.20 NR (Monaco 2002)
5000 m: 14:29.11 (Bydgoszcz 2004)
10,000 m: 30:01.09 (Munich 2002)
Half marathon: 65:40a NR (South Shields 2003)
Marathon: 2:15:25 NR (London 2003)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Great Britain
World Championships
2005 Helsinki
Marathon
1999 Seville
10,000 m
World Cross Country Championships
2002 Dublin
Long race
2001 Ostend
Long race
1992 Boston
Junior race
2001 Ostend
Short race
1998 Marrakech
Long race
1997 Turin
Long race
1999 Belfast
Long race
World Half Marathon Championships
2003 Vilamoura
Individual
2001 Bristol
Individual
2000 Veracruz
Individual
European Championships
2002 Munich
10,000 m
European Cross Country Championships
2003 Edinburgh
Individual
2003 Edinburgh
Team
1998 Ferrara
Individual
European Cup
2004 Bydgoszcz
5000 m
1999 Paris
5000 m
1998 Saint Petersburg
5000 m
2001 Bremen
5000 m
1998 Saint Petersburg
1500 m
1997 Munich
3000 m
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
2002 Manchester
5000 m
Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a former British long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2005 World Champion in the Marathon from Helsinki. She was previously the fastest female marathoner of all time, and held the Women's World Marathon Record with a time of 2:15:25 for 16 years from 2003 to 2019 when it was broken by Brigid Kosgei.[2]
Radcliffe is a former world champion in the marathon, half marathon and cross country. She has also been European champion over 10,000 metres and in cross country. On the track, Radcliffe won the 10,000 metres silver medal at the 1999 World Championships[3] and was the 2002 Commonwealth champion at 5000 metres. She represented Great Britain at the Olympics in four consecutive games (1996 to 2008), although she never won an Olympic medal.
Her running has earned her a number of accolades including the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Laureus World Comeback of the Year, IAAF World Athlete of the Year, AIMS World Athlete of the Year (three times) and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). She has also been nominated for World Sportswoman of the year on several occasions. In 2010, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the Loughborough University Hall of Fame in 2015.[4][5]
She ended her competitive running career at the 2015 London Marathon.[6]
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^Ingle, Sean (13 October 2019). "Brigid Kosgei smashes Paula Radcliffe's world marathon record by 81 seconds". The Guardian.
^"10,000 metres women 7th IAAF World Championships in Athletics". IAAF. IAAF. 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
^"Loughborough University Hall of Fame". Loughborough University. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
^Rush, Richard (22 May 2015). "Paula Radcliffe's Loughborough Hall of Fame honour". The Loughborough Echo. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
^"'Come on Paula': Radcliffe's London Marathon is final competitive race", The Guardian, 26 April 2015
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woman to win the event. This was the third-best time in London after PaulaRadcliffe in 2005 with 2:17:42 and Mary Keitany in 2017 with the world record...
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distance. The 2012 edition saw Haile and PaulaRadcliffe engage in a novel half marathon race, with Radcliffe receiving a head start 7:52 minutes (the...
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