![]() I want to keep on enjoying it, keep on improving, get as much out of it as I can and put as much back as I can." I just want to do my best and still enjoy it. Obviously it's nice that there's a bit of money coming in but that's not my goal. "I'm not looking to make a living out of it. In 1991 Radcliffe won the English Schools 1500 metres title. Her first race at a national level came as a 12-year-old in 1986, when she placed 299th in the English Schools Cross Country Championships. At the age of 10 Radcliffe, accompanied by her father, watched Ingrid Kristiansen run in the London Marathon, inspiring her to become an athlete. Stanton started to coach Radcliffe at the age of 12 after his wife Rosemary spotted her talent. There she was coached by Alex Stanton, who still fulfilled that role in her professional career. Radcliffe attended Frodsham Athletic Club until the age of nine, Radcliffe became a member of Bedford & County Athletics Club, when they moved to Oakley. During her father's training jogs in the woods Radcliffe and her brother would often run with him for a mile or two. Radcliffe was diagnosed with exercise induced asthma at the age of 14 after blacking out whilst training. In 1992 Radcliffe discovered that she suffers from anaemia. Despite suffering from asthma Radcliffe took up running at the age of seven. He took up the hobby again in an attempt to lose weight after giving up smoking. Radcliffe's father was a keen marathon runner as a young man. She went on to study French, German and economics at Loughborough University, gaining a first-class honours degree in Modern European Studies. Radcliffe attended Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College. She finished fourth in the same race one year later. Her first race at a national level came as a 12-year-old in 1986 when she placed 299th out of around 600 in the girls' race of the English Schools Cross Country Championships. Radcliffe's father became club vice-chairman and her mother, a fun-runner, managed the women's cross-country team. Her joining the club coincided with a talented and dedicated coach, Alex Stanton, building the women's and girls' sections into one of the strongest in the country, in spite of Bedford's relatively small size. When Radcliffe was aged 12, the family moved to Oakley, Bedfordshire and she became a member of Bedford & County Athletics Club. Despite suffering from asthma and anaemia, she took up running at the age of seven, influenced by her father who was a keen amateur marathon runner and joined Frodsham Athletic Club. Her family then moved to nearby Barnton where she attended Little Leigh Primary School. Radcliffe was born on 17 December 1973 in Davenham near Northwich, Cheshire. She ended her competitive running career at the 2015 London Marathon. She was inducted into the Loughborough University Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2010, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. She has also been nominated for World Sportswoman of the year on several occasions. 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 represented Great Britain at the Olympics in four consecutive games (1996 to 2008), although she never won an Olympic medal. On the track, Radcliffe won the 10,000 metres silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and was the 2002 Commonwealth champion at 5000 metres. She has also been European champion over 10,000 metres and in cross country. Radcliffe is a former world champion in the marathon, half marathon and cross country. 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. 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 2015 World Champion in the Marathon from Helsinki. ![]() Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a former British long-distance runner.
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