Isabelle Sauve

Isabelle Sauve, also spelled Isabelle Sauvé, is a Canadian ultramarathon runner and writer who worked as a police officer with the Ontario Provincial Police. She was born and raised in Astorville, in East Ferris Township near North Bay, Ontario, and graduated from Nipissing University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She competed in the RacingThePlanet 4 Deserts series of multi-day, self-supported ultramarathons, finishing third among women at the Atacama Crossing in Chile in 2016, first among women at the Sahara Race in Namibia in 2018, second at the Gobi March in Mongolia and first at The Last Desert in Antarctica. RacingThePlanet named her the female 4 Deserts Champion for 2018. She also wrote a health and wellness column for the police magazine Blue Line, is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, and was inducted into the North Bay Sports Hall of Fame in July 2024.