Victoria Wilkinson

Victoria Wilkinson (born 19 August 1978) is an English runner and cyclo-cross rider who was a world mountain running champion at junior level and who has several times been a national fell running champion as a senior athlete.

Wilkinson displayed significant talent as a junior, winning national fell running titles at under-16 and under-18 level. She also finished second in the English Schools Cross Country Championships in 1996. At that time she was coached by her father Chris who was also a runner and cyclo-cross competitor who had won the Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross in 1972. Victoria was also advised by Keith Anderson and others. Her most notable result as a young athlete was victory in the junior race at the World Mountain Running Trophy in 1997.

A knee injury interrupted Wilkinson’s running career and she turned her attention to cyclo-cross, in which she competed at the World Championships. She was a winner of the national cyclo-cross series and had four consecutive second-place finishes in the British National Cyclo-cross Championships between 2002 and 2005. She finished fifth in the World Cup series race at St. Wendel in Germany in 2003. Some years later, despite limited experience on the type of course, she won the Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross in 2012.

Around 2006, Wilkinson returned to more frequent racing as a runner. She has represented her country multiple times in both the World Mountain Running Championships and the European Mountain Running Championships. Her results in the global championships include eleventh place in both 2006 and 2016. At the European level, she was fifth in 2008 and sixth in 2015.

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