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 8c Espacío Tiempo
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 Rachel Pearce 8b+ Troppo
20 Michaela Tracy 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies, Ramadán
21 Naomi Buys 8b Wicked Gravity, Stolen
22 Thea Cameron 8b Austrian Oak, Full Tilt
23 Jo Neame 8b Dark Matter, Full Tilt
24 Charlotte Garden 8b The Beer Will Taste Good, Lightning
25 Ruth Jenkins 8b Zeke the Freak
26 Jenny Woodward 8b Predator
27 Lucinda Whittaker 8b Austrian Oak
28 Jules Littlefair 8b Predator
29 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
30 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
31 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
32 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
33 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
34 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
35 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
36 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
37 Natalie Berry 8b Satan X
38 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
39 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
40 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
41 Alice Thompson 8a+ Romocop, Tirali Valent
42 Rae Cowie 8a+ Boot Boys, Caviar
43 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ G.B.H., Cross 'n Angry
44 Debbie Birch 8a+ In Brine
45 Ruth Smitton 8a+ Supercool
46 Cherry Bedford 8a+ Pet Cemetry
47 Mia Stacey 8a+ Flix Flax
48 Harriet Ridley 8a+ 100 Proof
49 Nicola Taylor 8a+ Supercool
50 Holly Murray 8a+ Flow
51 Molly Shep 8a+ Oh Saint Léger Fait Moi Monter au Relais
52 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
53 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
54 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
55 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
56 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
57 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
58 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
59 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
60 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3, The Bulge
61 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance, Doctor Feelgood, Rodillar
62 Roxy Elgar 8a Ze Pequerto, Ching, Axiom, Air Bahal
63 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
64 Natalie Tanzer 8a Salva Mea, El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
65 Rachel Slater 8a Coliseum, Bon Vitage, Latido del Miedo
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 Lis Espin 8a Just Call Me Helmet, Hang Ten
74 Charlotte Warner 8a La Cuca, Pinza Time
75 Koon Morris 8a Ching, Axiom
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 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
102 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
103 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
104 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
105 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
106 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
107 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
108 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
109 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
110 Airlie Anderson 8a Reve de Papillon
111 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
112 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
113 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
114 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
115 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
116 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
117 Lynne Malcom 8a Thai Dream
118 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
119 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
120 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
121 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
122 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
123 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall
124 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
125 Fran Brown 8a Lobos
126 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
127 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas