Jasmin Paris

Jasmin Karina Paris (born November 1983[1]) is a British runner who has been a national fell running champion and who holds the records for the Bob Graham Round and the Ramsay Round.

She is the daughter of mathematicians Jeff Paris and Alena Vencovská.[2]

Paris did not start running until she left university in 2008 and was working in Glossop near her home town of Hadfield in Derbyshire, although she had done some backpacking and walked a lot in the fells. After a twelve-month sabbatical in Minnesota, she returned to the UK, moved to Edinburgh in 2010 and began to take running more seriously.[3]

She has performed particularly well in the longer fell races. Her wins include Wasdale, the Three Peaks Race, Borrowdale, the Langdale Horseshoe, the Isle of Jura and the Ennerdale Horseshoe[4] and she has won the Lakeland Classics Trophy series.[5]

Paris won the Scottish Hill Running Championships in 2014 and 2015[6] and in the latter year she won the British Fell Running Championships.[7]

In 2015, Paris began to be more prominent in ultra distance running. In April that year, she set a new women’s record of 11:09 in the Fellsman, finishing fourth overall,[8] and in June, she was the first female finisher and second overall in the five-day Dragon’s Back Race in Wales.[9]

On 23 April 2016, Paris completed the Bob Graham Round in a time of 15:24, taking more than two-and-a-half hours off the women’s record previously held by Nicky Spinks.[10] She then ran the Ramsay Round on 18 June in a time of 16:13. This was not only a new women’s record, but an overall fastest known time for the route.[11]

The next month, Paris took third place in the Buff Epic Trail 105K which was the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships race for the ultra category.[12] In August, she finished sixth at the UTMB, her first 100-mile race.[13]

In September, Paris was crowned champion in the Extreme series of the 2016 Skyrunner World Series, having won both the Tromsø Skyrace and the Glen Coe Skyline.[14] In October, she set a new women's record for the Paddy Buckley Round with a time of 18:33.[15]

In 2016, Paris married Konrad Rawlik who is also a runner with a win in the Fellsman.[16] She is a small animal vet, currently working at the University of Edinburgh studying acute myeloid leukaemia.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Companies House: Carnethy Hill Running Club.
  2. ↑ jasminfellrunner.blogspot.co.uk: Bob Graham; Who’s Who: Paris, Prof. Jeffrey Bruce; University of Manchester: Alena Vencovská.
  3. ↑ Ben Abdelnoor, "Jasmin Paris", The Fellrunner, Spring 2013, 68-69; Adharanand Finn, "Jasmin Paris: 'I Rarely Run on Roads, Only to Get to the Hills'", The Guardian, 20 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Lakeland Classics Trophy: Race Results; Three Peaks Race: Winners 1954-2015; 2015 Jura Race Report.
  5. ↑ Bill Johnson, "Lakeland Classics Trophy 2012", The Fellrunner, Spring 2013, 64-65.
  6. ↑ Carnethy Hill Running Club: Hall of Fame.
  7. ↑ Fellrunner.org.uk: British Champions.
  8. ↑ Grough: Adam Perry Posts Third Fellsman Win as Jasmin Paris sets New Women's Record; Fellsman: 2015 Results.
  9. ↑ Grough: Jim Mann and Jasmin Paris Triumph in Five-day Dragon's Back Race; Dragon’s Back Race: 2015 Results.
  10. ↑ Jasmin Paris, "Raising the Bar", The Fellrunner, Summer 2016, 48-51; Talk Ultra: Episode 110 – MDS Special and Jasmin Paris.
  11. ↑ UKClimbing.com: Jasmin Paris Breaks Ramsay Round Record; Inov-8: Jasmin Paris: A 16:13 Ramsay Round Record.
  12. ↑ International Skyrunning Federation: Hernando and Chaverot Ultra Champions. Spain, Czech Republic and Japan Take the Medals.
  13. ↑ iRunFar: Jasmin Paris Post-2016 UTMB Interview.
  14. ↑ Skyrunner World Series: Albon and Paris are Extreme Champions.
  15. ↑ Inov-8: Jasmin Paris Rewrites the Mountain Running Record Books.
  16. ↑ iancorless.com: Tromsø SkyRace 2016 Preview – Skyrunner Extreme Series; Fellsman: 2016 Results.
  17. ↑ Kendal Mountain Festival: Jasmin Paris; University of Edinburgh: Jasmin Paris.
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