Sophie Power

Sophie Power, born in 1982, is a British ultrarunner. In 2023 she ran a 24-hour personal best of 235.739 km in Crawley and later that year represented Great Britain at the IAU 24 Hour World Championship in Taipei, where she ran 227 km. In 2018 a photograph of her breastfeeding her three-month-old baby while taking part in the 171 km Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc went viral. She had wanted to defer the race until fully fit, but pregnancy deferrals were not then possible, and the photograph prompted race organisers and women racers to contact her. That led her to set up SheRACES, a not-for-profit community interest company incorporated in July 2022 that produces guidelines to make races more inclusive of women, and it convinced the London Marathon to allow pregnancy deferrals.