Ricky Lightfoot

Ricky William Lightfoot, born 31 March 1985, is a British runner who has been a world champion in trail running and a medallist in the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge. He began competing in fell races at fourteen, has been sponsored by Salomon since 2008 and runs for Ellenborough AC. He has won several of the most prestigious fell races, including the Three Peaks Race, Wasdale, Borrowdale, Ennerdale, the Three Shires and Skiddaw, and won the Lakeland Classics Trophy in 2007 and 2015. His first ultramarathon, the Hammer Trail in Denmark, he won in 2012, and in 2013 he won the IAU Trail World Championships in Llanrwst. He also won the Zegama-Aizkorri race in 2009 and the Man versus Horse Marathon in 2022, and he works as a firefighter at Workington Fire Station.