Sabrina Verjee

Sabrina Verjee is a British long-distance fell-runner who held the overall record for the 325 mile circuit of the Wainwrights from June 2021 to May 2022 and the female record for the Pennine Way from September 2020 to August 2021. She grew up in Surrey, studied human sciences at Oxford and veterinary medicine at Cambridge, where she took up modern pentathlon and adventure racing. She won her first ultramarathon, the Grand Tour of Skiddaw, in 2014, and finished 21st in the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in 2017, an experience she did not enjoy. In 2019 she won the Spine Fusion in 81 hours 19 minutes, in January 2020 she was fifth overall and first woman in the Spine Race, and in September 2020 she ran the 268 mile Pennine Way in 3 days 2 hours 28 minutes.