28 Facts About Eleanor Robinson

Eleanor Robinson is a British former ultramarathon runner and two-time winner of the IAU 100km World Championships.

Eleanor Robinson was the first woman to run over 150 miles in a 24-hour endurance race.

Eleanor Robinson was the winner of the first Badwater Ultramarathon in 1987.

Eleanor Robinson was twice bronze medallist at the IAU 100 km European Championships.

At the 1984 New York 6-Day Race, Eleanor Robinson was up against Donna Hudson, who had just set a new 100-mile world record.

Eleanor Robinson took the lead from the start but was pursued closely by Hudson, who set a new American 48-hour record of 169 miles.

Eleanor Robinson went on to win, setting a world record of 739.36 kilometres.

Eleanor Robinson won all of these challenges but Hudson frequently came second, breaking several American records along the way.

In taking sixth place overall, Eleanor Robinson broke 11 world records, becoming the first woman to surpass 800 kilometres for the event, exceeding the 760 kilometres world record set only a few weeks earlier in La Rochelle, France, by Edith Couhe.

Eleanor Robinson ran Colac four more times, from 1986 to 1989, winning on each occasion and thereby beating Hudson twice more.

Eleanor Robinson came in third behind the two male athletes Maurice Taylor and Bryan Smith, with a new best of 866.36 kilometres.

Eleanor Robinson is the only athlete to have won the event in five consecutive races.

Eleanor Robinson got ahead on the final day to win the race, just ahead of Hudson and Smith.

Meanwhile, in the Sri Chinmoy Adelaide 24 Hour Race, which was first held in 1982, Eleanor Robinson was the winning woman and the only one of five, along with 16 men, to surpass 160 kilometres.

Eleanor Robinson was one of 16 competitors, four of them women.

Eleanor Robinson was the first woman to finish in a time of 6:43:40.

Eleanor Robinson completed the ascent of Mount Whitney after 52 hours and 45 minutes.

Eleanor Robinson went on to win, covering a total of 237.861 kilometres, the second best result after her own track record of 240.169 kilometres, which she had set the previous year in Melbourne.

The women's world record was broken in 2011 by Mami Kudo of Japan but Eleanor Robinson's record remains the UK all-time best for the event.

Eleanor Robinson won in two successive years, 1996 and 1997, in Edinburgh.

In 1987, Eleanor Robinson had set a world record of 16 days, 23 hours and 9 minutes for 1000 miles, at a stage race in England.

Now, more than ten years later, at Nanango, Australia, in 1998, Eleanor Robinson completed the distance in a world best of 13 days, 1 hour 54 minutes.

Eleanor Robinson's career came to an end in 2001, when a persistent foot injury failed to respond to treatment.

Eleanor Robinson was one of the team managers of England Athletics at the Perth 24 Hour race in 2010.

Eleanor Robinson has held nearly 40 world records in a range of events from 30 miles to the 6 Day Race and six world titles.

Eleanor Robinson has two sons, two daughters and six grandchildren.

Eleanor Robinson is the Club Secretary of Ripley Running Club.

Eleanor Robinson is an active member of Belper Ten Twenty Triathlon Club and has qualified and represented Great Britain in Duathlon.