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Paula Radcliffe is a British distance runner who set world records in the marathon.

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Paula Radcliffe is a British distance runner who set world records in the marathon.

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LIFE and EARLY CAREER

  • Radcliffe was born on December 17, 1973 in Davenham near Northwich, Cheshire.
  • She was born into an athletic family, with her father as her greatest influence.
  • When she was 12, the family moved to Oakley, Bedfordshire and she became a member of Bedford & County Athletics Club.
  • Her first national level race was in 1986, when she placed 299th in the English Schools Cross Country Championships. Then in 1991, Radcliffe won the English Schools 1500 meters title.
  • The next year, she won the world junior cross-country title and came seventh in the world championship 3,000 meters in 1993.
  • Radcliffe placed fifth in the 5,000 meters in the 1995 world championships and in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
  • In 1997, she advanced to fourth in the 5,000-meter marathon. Two years later, she set the pace in the world championship 10,000 meters in Sevilla, Spain.
  • At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, she pushed the pace again in the 10,000 meters and finished fourth.

LONG DISTANCE CAREER

  • On March 24, Radcliffe won the Ostend, Belgium-held World Cross Country Championships 2001 then defended her title in the Women’s Long Race in the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
  • In the Chicago Marathon later that year, she set the women’s world record for the marathon and represented the biggest improvement in the event in more than 17 years with a time of 2 hrs 17 mins 18 seconds, an 89-second improvement.
  • In 2003, she set a new world record in the London Marathon with a time of 2 hrs 15 mins 25 secs.
  • In late 2004, she won the New York City Marathon and in 2005 she claimed her third London Marathon.
  • On August 14, 2005 she won Britain’s only gold medal at the World Championships held in Helsinki.
  • She then took a break in 2006 and early 2007 due to back injuries and for expecting her first child.
  • Radcliffe made her winning marathon return at the New York City Marathon on November 4, 2007.
  • Radcliffe withdrew from the 2008 London Marathon due to foot and hip injury and scans later revealed it was a stress fracture to her femur.
  • However, she was able to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics, but cramped during the marathon and finished in 23rd place overall.
  • Radcliffe then won her third New York City Marathon title in 2008. Following the marathon, she suffered more injury setbacks and had to withdraw from the 2009 London Marathon.
  • Radcliffe did run for the next 19 months and only returned in 2011 at the Bupa London 10 km where she finished third.
  • She set the same year in Berlin Marathon as her comeback with a time of 2:23:46 hours – the Olympic standard and fourth fastest time by a European that year.
  • Because of a foot injury, Radcliffe was unable to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London.
  • In 2015, she finally announced that she would be retiring after that year’s London Marathon; she finished the race in 2 hrs 36 mins 55 secs.

AWARDS and OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS

  • In recognition of her athletic achievements, Radcliffe became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2002.
  • Radcliffe was awarded the BBC London Sports Awards 2003 for ‘Sporting Moment of the Year’.
  • In 2004, Radcliffe and Jonathan Edwards raised £64,000 on an Olympic Special of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with half of the sum going to the British Olympic Association and half going to Asthma UK.
  • She was also nominated for the Sports Personality Award in 2007.
  • Radcliffe won the Laureus World Comeback of the Year award in early 2008 for her performances in 2007.
  • She was also awarded the Londoner of the Year award at the 2016 London Press Club awards despite being from Bedford.

PERSONAL LIFE

  • Paula Radcliffe’s parents are Peter and Pat Radcliffe, a recreational runner, and she is the great-niece of 1920 Olympic silver medallist Charlotte Radcliffe.
  • She met her husband Gary Lough, a former Northern Irish 1,500-meter runner, and married in 2001.
  • She gave birth to her first child, daughter Isla, in 2007 and second child, Raphael, in 2010.
  • In 2004, Paula Radcliffe published her biography titled, “Paula; My Story so Far.”
  • Later in 2011, she again published a guidebook for runners titles; “How to Run: From Fun Runs to Marathons and Everything in Between”.

Paula Radcliffe Worksheets

This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about the Paula Radcliffe across 23 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use Paula Radcliffe worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about Paula Radcliffe who is a British distance runner who set world records in the marathon.

Complete List Of Included Worksheets

  • Marathon
  • The Running Sport
  • Women Champions
  • A Good Runner
  • Running Prepared
  • Warming Up, Cooling Down
  • Paula’s Regimen
  • Stay Fit!
  • Word Marathon
  • My Story so Far

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