Fernanda Maciel

Fernanda Maciel is a Brazilian skyrunner and former environmental lawyer who competes in mountain ultramarathons over distances of 100 miles and more. She grew up in Belo Horizonte, trained as a gymnast from a young age and later turned to running full time, ran her first ultramarathon in 2008 and began racing at the elite level in skyrunning in 2009. Her results include first places at the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, the Lavaredo and Trans Gran Canaria, and third places at the Marathon des Sables in 2016 and 2017. From 2016 she has pursued a Seven Summits project, setting women's speed records on Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, Mount Vinson and Carstensz Pyramid, and she also became the first woman to run the whole Camino de Santiago, covering 860 km in 10 days. She is based in Chamonix, France.