Jez Bragg

Jeremy Bragg, known as Jez Bragg and born 13 April 1981, is a British ultramarathon runner. Early in his career he won the West Highland Way Race in 2006 in a course record 15:44, and in 2007 he was the United Kingdom 100k champion and finished eighteenth at the IAU 100 km World Championships in Winschoten. In 2009 he won both the Anglo Celtic Plate 100k and the 100k race at the Commonwealth Mountain and Ultradistance Running Championships in Keswick, and finished third in the Western States Endurance Run, returning in 2011 to place fourth. He won the UTMB in 2010 when it was restarted over a shortened route after the original race was cancelled because of weather and a mudslide, set a course record at the Fellsman in 2011, and set the fastest known time for Te Araroa in New Zealand in fifty-three days.