Eleanor Robinson

Eleanor Robinson, formerly Adams and born Puckrin on 20 November 1947, is a British former ultramarathon runner and two-time winner of the IAU 100km World Championships. She was the first woman to run over 150 miles in a 24-hour endurance race and the winner of the first Badwater Ultramarathon in 1987, and she was twice a bronze medallist at the IAU 100 km European Championships in 1992 and 1993. She was brought up in Middlesbrough, England, in a family of keen athletes. Her ultramarathon career arguably began when she watched Ros Paul set a 24-hour record in a 6-day race in 1982. In 1985 she broke the 24-hour record at an event in Nottingham with 222.8 kilometres, and she took part in the inaugural Spartathlon in 1983.