When Radcliffe was aged 12, the family moved to Oakley, Bedfordshire and she became a member of Bedford & County Athletics Club.

Despite suffering from asthma and anaemia, she took up running at the age of seven, influenced by her father who was a keen amateur marathon runner and joined Frodsham Athletic Club. Her family then moved to nearby Barnton where she attended Little Leigh Primary School. Radcliffe was born on 17 December 1973 in Davenham near Northwich, Cheshire. She ended her competitive running career at the 2015 London Marathon. She was inducted into the Loughborough University Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2010, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. She has also been nominated for World Sportswoman of the year on several occasions. Her running has earned her a number of accolades including the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Laureus World Comeback of the Year, IAAF World Athlete of the Year, AIMS World Athlete of the Year (three times) and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). She represented Great Britain at the Olympics in four consecutive games (1996 to 2008), although she never won an Olympic medal. On the track, Radcliffe won the 10,000 metres silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and was the 2002 Commonwealth champion at 5000 metres. She has also been European champion over 10,000 metres and in cross country. Radcliffe is a former world champion in the marathon, half marathon and cross country. She was previously the fastest female marathoner of all time, and held the Women's World Marathon Record with a time of 2:15:25 for 16 years from 2003 to 2019 when it was broken by Brigid Kosgei. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2015 World Champion in the Marathon from Helsinki. Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a former British long-distance runner.

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