Lizzy Hawker

Elizabeth Hawker (born 10 March 1976) is a British endurance athlete. Her career highlights include five wins at the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), as well as the 2006 IAU 100 km World Championships. She is a former world record-holder at the 24 hour distance. She has also worked as an oceanographer and climate change researcher.

Early life Hawker grew up in Upminster, a suburb of London.

Career Hawker ran her first long-distance race at the London Marathon in 2000.

Hawker first ran the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) in 2005. Although she had never owned a pair of trail-running shoes until 10 days before the race she won it at her first attempt. She has won UTMB record five times, a record for either male or female runners.

The North Face began sponsoring Hawker in 2005. She continued to work as a researcher for the British Antarctic Survey until 2007, when she relocated to the Laufschule Scuol, a training centre in the Swiss Alps. In 2011, she set the women's 24-hour world record with 153.5 miles in Llandudno, Wales. She also improved on her Everest record with a time of 71 hours 25 minutes.

She beat her Everest Base Camp–Kathmandu time in 2013, completing the distance in 63 hours. She has a reputation for recovering quickly after major races.

She is the author of the book Runner: A short story about a long run.