Sabrina Verjee wins the Women's Lakeland 100

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Sabrina Verjee has taken The Lakeland 100 title, becoming the first person to win three times – following victories in 2017 and 2018, as well as in the Lakeland 50 race in 2016. She completed the race in just 23:00:06 – falling just six seconds short of becoming the second person to break the twenty-three hour barrier.

The race takes a circular route encompassing the whole of the lakeland fells from Coniston to Keswick and includes approximately 6,300 metres of ascent.

Sabrina has clocked up race victories at the Montane Winter Spine Race (2020), the Montane Summer Spine Race (2019) and The Cumbria Way Ultra (2018), and, in June 2021, she became the fastest person to climb the Lake District's 214 Wainwright fells in under six days, as recounted in her book, Where There's a Hill.

The Women’s Lakeland 100 Results:
1. Sabrina Verjee (GBR) – 23:00:06
2. Dariia Bodnar (UKR) – 26:46:59
3. Jodie Gauld (GBR) – 28:43:39
4. Shelli Gordon (GBR) – 28:55:17
5. Kate Archer (GBR) – 29:38:12
6. Seema Ritson (GBR) – 29:39:16
7. Liz James (GBR) – 30:46:30
8. Charlotte Johnson (GBR) – 33:10:47
9. Kirsty Reade (GBR) – 33:10:47
10. Sarah Kirsty Williams (GBR) – 33:36:11

Congratulations to Sabrina and to Vertebrate's commissioning editor, Kirsty, who took ninth place.