Lizzy Hawker

Elizabeth Hawker, known as Lizzy Hawker and born on 10 March 1976, is a British endurance athlete whose career highlights include five wins at the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and the 2006 IAU 100 km World Championships. She grew up in Upminster, a suburb of London, and ran her first long-distance race at the 2000 London Marathon. She won the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc at her first attempt in 2005, having owned trail-running shoes for only ten days before the race, and her five wins are a record for either women or men. She set the women's 24-hour world record of 153.5 miles in 2011, won the 155-mile Spartathlon in 2012 while setting a women's record, and created the Ultra Tour Monte Rosa. She holds a PhD in physical oceanography and worked for the British Antarctic Survey.