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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127 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Emma Twyford 9a Big Bang
2 Hazel Findlay 9a Esclatamàsters
3 Molly Thompson-Smith 8c La Fabelita, Rollito Sharma Extension, Roof Warrior, Intercooler, New Orleans Heavyweight Division, Father and Son
4 Lucy Mitchell 8c Fish Eye, Le Fight du Beau Gosse Intégrale, Pâques Express, Darwin Dans la Cave, Free Fight Intégral
5 Mina Leslie-Wujastyk 8c Mecca Extension, Bat Route, Nordic Plumber, Raining Bats and Dogs
6 Rhoslyn Frugtniet 8c The Death Star, Mecca Extension, Bat Route, All Out
7 Anna Wild 8c True North, Epic Adventures, Bat Route
8 Maddy Cope 8c Bat Route, Mind Control
9 Jennifer Wood 8c Stay as You Are, Paklinski Waves
10 Prudence Morgan-Wood 8b+ Colla d’Arreplegats, Semental, Simónides
11 Katy Whittaker 8b+ China Crisis, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
12 Frances Bensley 8b+ Kalea Borroka, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
13 Lucy Creamer 8b+ Kalea Borroka
14 Karin Magog 8b+ Mundo Feliz
15 Holly Rees 8b+ Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
16 Ella Russell 8b+ Cringer
17 Anna Soligo 8b+ Verbrecher
18 Gwyneth Uttley 8b+ Kalea Borroka
19 Michaela Tracy 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies, Ramadán
20 Naomi Buys 8b Wicked Gravity, Stolen
21 Thea Cameron 8b Austrian Oak, Full Tilt
22 Jo Neame 8b Dark Matter, Full Tilt
23 Charlotte Garden 8b Lightning, The Beer Will Taste Good
24 Ruth Jenkins 8b Zeke the Freak
25 Jenny Woodward 8b Predator
26 Lucinda Whittaker 8b Austrian Oak
27 Jules Littlefair 8b Predator
28 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
29 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
30 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
31 Rachel Pearce 8b Kanunsz Extension
32 Natalie Berry 8b Satan X
33 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
34 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
35 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
36 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
37 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
38 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
39 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
40 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
41 Rae Cowie 8a+ Boot Boys, Caviar
42 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ G.B.H., Cross 'n Angry
43 Debbie Birch 8a+ In Brine
44 Ruth Smitton 8a+ Supercool
45 Cherry Bedford 8a+ Pet Cemetry
46 Mia Stacey 8a+ Flix Flax
47 Harriet Ridley 8a+ 100 Proof
48 Nicola Taylor 8a+ Supercool
49 Holly Murray 8a+ Flow
50 Molly Shep 8a+ Oh Saint Léger Fait Moi Monter au Relais
51 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
52 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
53 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
54 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
55 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
56 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
57 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
58 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
59 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3, The Bulge
60 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance, Doctor Feelgood, Rodillar
61 Roxy Elgar 8a Ze Pequerto, Ching, Axiom, Air Bahal
62 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
63 Natalie Tanzer 8a Salva Mea, El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
64 Rachel Slater 8a Coliseum, Bon Vitage, Latido del Miedo
65 Alice Thompson 8a Cold Steal, Powerplant, Aberration
66 Zoe Wood 8a Ergometría, Never Get Out of the Boat, Mediterraneo
67 Emily Johnson 8a Pesadillo, El Salto del Tigre, Defcon 3
68 Lucy Ross 8a Sufferance, Stanton Stereotype, Salva Mea
69 Katherine Schirrmacher 8a Raindogs, Powerplant
70 Shauna Coxsey 8a Watermark, Raindogs
71 Llinos Cassidy 8a Storm Warning Variation, Vennerne
72 Rebekah Drummond 8a Transilvania, Shimmy Sham
73 Koon Morris 8a Axiom, Ching
74 Charlotte Warner 8a Pinza Time, La Cuca
75 Lis Espin 8a Hang Ten, Just Call Me Helmet
76 Rachel Farmer 8a Raindogs
77 Lucy Ellis 8a Raindogs
78 Kitty Wallace 8a Daniboy
79 Zoe Ogden 8a Raindogs
80 Harriet Hall 8a The Best Off
81 Emily Allen 8a Aberration
82 Sophie Whyte 8a El Salto del Tigre
83 Laura Smitton 8a Ouijaboard
84 Becca Lounds 8a Aberration
85 Ferdia Earle 8a The Invisible Girl
86 Kim Mountney 8a Le Lapin
87 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
88 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
89 Megan Willmott 8a The Sissy
90 Steph Ward 8a Dark Energy
91 Sophie Keltie 8a Reloaded
92 Jemima Churchhouse 8a Aberration
93 Hannah Williams 8a The Bulge
94 Molly Hymes 8a The Thumb
95 Anna Healy 8a The Medium
96 Katie Landon 8a Aberration
97 Nicky Brierly 8a Aberration
98 Emma Hommard 8a Sticky Wicket-The Ashes
99 Jessica Sakura Ward 8a Raindogs
100 Nettie McLanaghan 8a Air Bahal
101 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
102 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
103 Lynne Malcom 8a Thai Dream
104 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
105 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
106 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
107 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
108 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
109 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
110 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall
111 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
112 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
113 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
114 Airlie Anderson 8a Reve de Papillon
115 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
116 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
117 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
118 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
119 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
120 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
121 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
122 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
123 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
124 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
125 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
126 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
127 Fran Brown 8a Lobos