Jo Lodge

Joanna Lodge (born 6 January 1968 Harrogate) is a retired British long-distance runner. She represented Great Britain in the Marathon at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and in the 1999 edition of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

Lodge grew up in Liverpool and was a good club athlete at Liverpool Harriers. Her first marathon was with the uncategorised masses at the 1995 London Marathon where she finished with a respectable time of 3 hrs 9mins. The following year at the London Marathon she came home as the third British woman (13th woman overall), in a time of 2:34:49, behind emerging athlete Tracey Morris and Birhan Dagne. At the time Lodge was a member of Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club and a teacher of art and ceramics at Gunnersbury Catholic School.

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