Strong British Female Sport Climbers

The best British female sport climbers.

This list aims to list any female British sport climber who has climbed 8a or harder. It attempts to be definitive in terms of the people included but does not attempt to enumerate every relevant ascent.

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132 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Emma Twyford 9a Big Bang
2 Hazel Findlay 9a Esclatamàsters
3 Jo Neame 8c+ Progress
4 Molly Thompson-Smith 8c La Fabelita, Rollito Sharma Extension, Roof Warrior, Intercooler, New Orleans Heavyweight Division, Father and Son
5 Lucy Mitchell 8c Fish Eye, Le Fight du Beau Gosse Intégrale, Pâques Express, Darwin Dans la Cave, Free Fight Intégral
6 Mina Mason 8c Mecca Extension, Bat Route, Nordic Plumber, Raining Bats and Dogs
7 Rhoslyn Frugtniet 8c The Death Star, Mecca Extension, Bat Route, All Out
8 Jennifer Wood 8c Stay as You Are, Paklinski Waves, Adventure Time, The Pirate
9 Prudence Morgan-Wood 8c Espacío Tiempo, Mind Control, T1 Full Equip
10 Maddy Cope 8c Bat Route, Mind Control
11 Anna Wild 8c True North, Bat Route
12 Katy Whittaker 8b+ China Crisis, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
13 Frances Bensley 8b+ Kale Borroka, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
14 Lucy Creamer 8b+ Kale Borroka
15 Karin Magog 8b+ Mundo Feliz
16 Holly Rees 8b+ Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
17 Ella Russell 8b+ Cringer
18 Anna Soligo 8b+ Verbrecher
19 Gwyneth Uttley 8b+ Kale Borroka
20 Rachel Pearce 8b+ Troppo
21 Zoë Peetermans 8b+ Slow Food
22 Michaela Tracy 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies, Ramadán
23 Naomi Buys 8b Wicked Gravity, Stolen
24 Thea Cameron 8b Austrian Oak, Full Tilt
25 Charlotte Garden 8b Lightning, The Beer Will Taste Good
26 Ruth Jenkins 8b Zeke the Freak
27 Jenny Woodward 8b Predator
28 Lucinda Whittaker 8b Austrian Oak
29 Jules Littlefair 8b Predator
30 Natalie Berry 8b SatanX
31 Shauna Coxsey 8b El Koala R1
32 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
33 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
34 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
35 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
36 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
37 Roxy Elgar 8b Watermark Extension
38 Alice Thompson 8b Stolen
39 Rosa Kellaway 8b Zeke the Freak
40 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
41 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
42 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
43 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
44 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
45 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
46 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ Cross 'n Angry, G.B.H.
47 Rae Cowie 8a+ Boot Boys, Caviar
48 Debbie Birch 8a+ In Brine
49 Ruth Smitton 8a+ Supercool
50 Cherry Bedford 8a+ Pet Cemetry
51 Mia Stacey 8a+ Flix Flax
52 Harriet Ridley 8a+ 100 Proof
53 Nicola Taylor 8a+ Supercool
54 Holly Murray 8a+ Flow
55 Molly Shep 8a+ Oh Saint Léger Fait Moi Monter au Relais
56 Emma Futcher 8a+ Wargames
57 Zoe Wood 8a+ Romocop
58 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
59 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
60 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
61 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
62 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
63 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
64 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
65 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3, The Bulge
66 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance, Doctor Feelgood, Rodillar
67 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
68 Rachel Slater 8a Coliseum, Latido del Miedo, Bon Vitage
69 Emily Johnson 8a Pesadillo, El Salto del Tigre, Defcon 3
70 Lucy Ross 8a Sufferance, Stanton Stereotype, Salva Mea
71 Katherine Schirrmacher 8a Raindogs, Powerplant
72 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall, Soft Option
73 Natalie Tanzer 8a El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
74 Llinos Cassidy 8a Storm Warning Variation, Vennerne
75 Rebekah Drummond 8a Transilvania, Shimmy Sham
76 Emma Hommard 8a Sticky Wicket-The Ashes, The Bulge
77 Jessica Sakura Ward 8a Raindogs, Complete Control
78 Beth Davies 8a Minimal Techno, Ouijaboard
79 Lis Espin 8a Just Call Me Helmet, Hang Ten
80 Charlotte Warner 8a Pinza Time, La Cuca
81 Koon Morris 8a Ching, Axiom
82 Rachel Farmer 8a Raindogs
83 Lucy Ellis 8a Raindogs
84 Kitty Wallace 8a Daniboy
85 Zoe Ogden 8a Raindogs
86 Harriet Hall 8a The Best Off
87 Emily Allen 8a Aberration
88 Sophie Whyte 8a El Salto del Tigre
89 Laura Smitton 8a Ouijaboard
90 Becca Lounds 8a Aberration
91 Ferdia Earle 8a The Invisible Girl
92 Kim Mountney 8a Le Lapin
93 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
94 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
95 Megan Willmott 8a The Sissy
96 Steph Ward 8a Dark Energy
97 Sophie Keltie 8a Reloaded
98 Jemima Churchhouse 8a Aberration
99 Hannah Williams 8a The Bulge
100 Molly Hymes 8a The Thumb
101 Anna Healy 8a The Medium
102 Katie Landon 8a Aberration
103 Nicky Brierly 8a Aberration
104 Nettie McLanaghan 8a Air Bahal
105 Kate Harrison 8a Mediterranean Dream
106 Charlie Low 8a Le Llamaban Moñas
107 Kirsty Crawshaw 8a Mediterraneo
108 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
109 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
110 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
111 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
112 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
113 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
114 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
115 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
116 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
117 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
118 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
119 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
120 Airlie Anderson 8a Rêve du Papillon
121 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
122 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
123 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
124 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
125 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
126 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
127 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
128 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
129 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
130 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
131 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
132 Fran Brown 8a Lobos