1. Victoria Wilkinson was born on 19 August 1978 and is an English runner and cyclo-cross rider who was a world mountain running champion at junior level and who has several times been a national fell running champion as a senior athlete.
14 Facts About Victoria Wilkinson
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Victoria Wilkinson finished second in the English Schools Cross Country Championships in 1996.
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Victoria Wilkinson was a winner of the national cyclo-cross series and had four consecutive second-place finishes in the British National Cyclo-cross Championships between 2002 and 2005.
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Victoria Wilkinson finished fifth in the World Cup series race at St Wendel in Germany in 2003.
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Around 2006, Victoria Wilkinson returned to more frequent racing as a runner.
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Victoria Wilkinson has represented her country multiple times in both the World Mountain Running Championships and the European Mountain Running Championships.
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Victoria Wilkinson won the Smarna Gora Race in Slovenia in 2007, the victory giving her enough points to finish second overall in the World Mountain Running Association Grand Prix that year.
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Victoria Wilkinson competed at the Commonwealth Mountain Running Championships in 2009 and 2011, finishing fifth on both occasions.
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In 2010, Victoria Wilkinson was first in the Yorkshire Cross Country Championships, second in the North of England Championships and fifth in the English National Championships.
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Victoria Wilkinson won the British Fell Running Championships in 2013 and 2014 and the English Fell Running Championships in 2013,2014,2015,2016 and 2017.
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In 2014, Victoria Wilkinson won the Three Peaks Race, thereby becoming the first woman to win both the running and cyclo-cross versions of that event.
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Victoria Wilkinson set a new record at the Tour of Pendle in 2017, taking thirteen minutes off the previous best women's time which had been set by Angela Mudge in 1997.
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Victoria Wilkinson followed this with a new record of 1:43:01 in the Ben Nevis Race and two weeks later earned the silver medal in the Ring of Steall Skyrace at the Skyrunning World Championships.
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In 2022, Victoria Wilkinson won the over-40 category at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships.