Carolyn Hunter-Rowe

British ultramarathon runner

Carolyn Hunter-Rowe (born 25 January 1964) is a British ultramarathon runner. She was the 1996 winner of the IAU 100 km European Championships and won the IAU 100 km World Championships in 1993 and 1998.^[1]

Hunter-Rowe set seven British records in athletics between 1993 and 1994. Four of those records were set at the Barry 40 mile track race. In 1993 Hunter -Rowe won the London to Brighton setting the women's course record of 6:34:10.^[2] In 1994 Hunter-Rowe won the prestigious Two Oceans Marathon, a 56 km race held in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2002 she won the Dartmoor Discovery - a 52 km road race which starts and finishes in Princetown.

Records

40 m 4:26:43 1993 Barry, Wales

Women's road 100 km record 7:27:19 Torhout [nl], Belgium 1993

20 km 1:15:46.00 1994 Barry, Wales
25 km 1:35:15.5 1994 Barry, Wales
30 km 1:55:02.3 1994 Barry, Wales
50 km 3:18:52 1994 Barry, Wales

References

^ IAU 100 Kilometres European Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
^ The history of the London to Brighton Race Ultramarathon World,David Blaikie 1998