Elizabeth Hawker

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Elizabeth Hawker (2012)

Elizabeth Hawker ( Elizabeth J. "Lizzy" Hawker ; born March 10, 1976 ) is a British long-distance runner who specializes in mountain and ultramarathons . Elizabeth Hawker is an oceanographer with a PhD from the University of Southampton , has participated in the British Antarctic Survey's Antarctic expeditions and is a freelance writer.

Career

In 2005 she won the 158 km Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc . In 2006 she became national champion in the 100 km road race , set course records in the Zermatt Marathon and on the K78 route of the Swiss Alpine Marathon , came second in the Jungfrau Marathon and won the 100 km World Cup in 7:29:12 . The following year she won the Liechtenstein Marathon , repeated her victories in Zermatt (again with a course record) and the K78. At the long distance mountain running world championships as part of the Jungfrau Marathon, she was sixth and at the same time won the first series of the Mountain Marathon Cup. Her best time on a flat marathon route is 2:47:55 hours - placed sixteenth in the 2007 London Marathon .

In 2008 she won the Zermatt Marathon again, came second in the Swiss-Alpine-K78, won the Gondo event and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and was sixth in the Cologne Marathon . In 2009 she came second in the Liechtenstein Marathon, won bronze at the World Trail running championship , won the Gondo event again and came second in the Swiss Alpine K78, the Matterhorn Run and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.

In 2010 she moved from Chester to Scuol in the canton of Graubünden , where she works as a running trainer at the Scuol running school. In March 2010 she won the Transgrancanaria , a race over 123 km with a difference of 7200  meters in altitude across the island of Gran Canaria . She improved the course record by forty minutes, and there were only eleven male participants ahead of her in the overall standings. A win in the Winterthur Marathon was followed by sixth place in the Comrades Marathon , another victory in the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and a second place in the South Tyrol Marathon .

On March 4, 2011, she was able to repeat last year's victory in the “Transgrancanaria” with a lead of 52 minutes over the runner-up and achieved eleventh place in the overall standings.

Elizabeth Hawker starts for the Road Runners Club. On July 30, 2011, she won the 26th Swissalpine Marathon Davos over 78 km in 7:16:17 hours.

Personal bests

Publications

  • with IL Boyd, MA Brandon & IJ Staniland: Measurement of ocean temperatures using instruments carried by Antarctic fur seals. In: Journal of Marine Systems. Volume 27, Issue 4, January 2001, pp. 277-288
  • with Mark A. Brandona, Mikio Naganobu, David A. Demer, Pavel Chernyshkov, Phillip N. Trathan, Sally E. Thorpe, Takahiko Kameda, Oleg A. Berezhinskiy & Sharon Grant: Physical oceanography in the Scotia Sea during the CCAMLR 2000 survey, austral summer 2000. In: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. Volume 51, Issues 12-13, June 2004, pp. 1301-1321
  • The Nordic Seas Circulation and Exchanges. Dissertation. University of Southampton, 2005 ( PDF; 30.42 MB )

Web links

Commons : Lizzy Hawker  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF: Hawker and Djouadi take 100km gold in IAU World Cup in Seoul. October 8, 2006, archived from the original on October 19, 2006 ; Retrieved July 12, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Portrait of Lizzy Hawker (March 9, 2011)
  3. ↑ Swissalpine Marathon Davos
personal data
SURNAME Hawker, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hawker, Elizabeth J .; Hawker, Lizzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mountain and ultra marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1976