Lizzy Hawker
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 March 1976 | |||||||||||||||
| Residence | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2005–present | |||||||||||||||
| Website | lizzyhawker |
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Running | |||||||||||||||
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Lizzy Hawker (born 10 March 1976) is a British long-distance runner. She has held the world record for 24-hour road running and is a former world champion at 100 km.
Hawker grew up in Upminster, a suburb of London. Visiting Zermatt in the Swiss Alps at the age of six, she fell for the mountains, to which she would relocate later in life.
Hawker's first taste of long-distance running was the London Marathon in 2000.
Hawker first ran the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) in 2005. Although she had never owned a pair of trail-running shoes until 10 days before the race she won it at her first attempt. In all she won the race a record five times. After the first race, The North Face offered her sponsorship, which Hawker accepted. She continued to work as a researcher for the British Antarctic Survey until 2007, when she relocated to the Laufschule Scuol, a training centre in the Swiss Alps. In the intervening years, Hawker won the 2006 IAU 100km World Championships, and in 2007 set the record for running the 199 miles between Mount Everest South Base Camp and Kathmandu, Nepal, in 77 hours 36 minutes.
The 2010 IAU 100 km World Championships saw Hawker lead the way for most of the race, battling with her compatriot Ellie Greenwood but she faded towards the end to take bronze behind Greenwood and Monica Carlin of Italy, the previous year's third-place finisher. This also earned her a bronze in the jointly hosted IAU 100 km European Championships. In 2011, she set the women's world record for distance run in 24 hours with 153.5 miles in Llandudno, Wales. She also improved on her Everest record with a time of 71 hours 25 minutes. The following year Hawker won the UTMB, the 100-mile Run Rabbit Run in Colorado, and the 155-mile Spartathlon while setting a new women's record.
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