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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131 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, Mind Control
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 Lightning, The Beer Will Taste Good
25 Ruth Jenkins 8b Zeke the Freak
26 Jenny Woodward 8b Predator
27 Lucinda Whittaker 8b Austrian Oak
28 Jules Littlefair 8b Predator
29 Shauna Coxsey 8b El Koala R1
30 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
31 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
32 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
33 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
34 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
35 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
36 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
37 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
38 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
39 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
40 Natalie Berry 8b Satan X
41 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
42 Alice Thompson 8a+ Romocop, Tirali Valent, Dimension Diamante
43 Rae Cowie 8a+ Caviar, Boot Boys
44 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ Cross 'n Angry, G.B.H.
45 Debbie Birch 8a+ In Brine
46 Ruth Smitton 8a+ Supercool
47 Cherry Bedford 8a+ Pet Cemetry
48 Mia Stacey 8a+ Flix Flax
49 Harriet Ridley 8a+ 100 Proof
50 Nicola Taylor 8a+ Supercool
51 Holly Murray 8a+ Flow
52 Molly Shep 8a+ Oh Saint Léger Fait Moi Monter au Relais
53 Emma Futcher 8a+ Wargames
54 Zoe Wood 8a+ Romocop
55 Roxy Elgar 8a+ Turkish Airways
56 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
57 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
58 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
59 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
60 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
61 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
62 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
63 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
64 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3, The Bulge
65 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance, Doctor Feelgood, Rodillar
66 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
67 Natalie Tanzer 8a Salva Mea, El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
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 Llinos Cassidy 8a Storm Warning Variation, Vennerne
73 Rebekah Drummond 8a Transilvania, Shimmy Sham
74 Lis Espin 8a Hang Ten, Just Call Me Helmet
75 Charlotte Warner 8a Pinza Time, La Cuca
76 Koon Morris 8a Ching, Axiom
77 Rachel Farmer 8a Raindogs
78 Lucy Ellis 8a Raindogs
79 Kitty Wallace 8a Daniboy
80 Zoe Ogden 8a Raindogs
81 Harriet Hall 8a The Best Off
82 Emily Allen 8a Aberration
83 Sophie Whyte 8a El Salto del Tigre
84 Laura Smitton 8a Ouijaboard
85 Becca Lounds 8a Aberration
86 Ferdia Earle 8a The Invisible Girl
87 Kim Mountney 8a Le Lapin
88 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
89 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
90 Megan Willmott 8a The Sissy
91 Steph Ward 8a Dark Energy
92 Sophie Keltie 8a Reloaded
93 Jemima Churchhouse 8a Aberration
94 Hannah Williams 8a The Bulge
95 Molly Hymes 8a The Thumb
96 Anna Healy 8a The Medium
97 Katie Landon 8a Aberration
98 Nicky Brierly 8a Aberration
99 Emma Hommard 8a Sticky Wicket-The Ashes
100 Jessica Sakura Ward 8a Raindogs
101 Nettie McLanaghan 8a Air Bahal
102 Charlie Low 8a Le Llamaban Moñas
103 Beth Davies 8a Minimal Techno
104 Kirsty Crawshaw 8a Mediterraneo
105 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
106 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
107 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
108 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
109 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
110 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
111 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
112 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
113 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
114 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
115 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
116 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
117 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
118 Airlie Anderson 8a Rêve du Papillon
119 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
120 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
121 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
122 Fran Brown 8a Lobos
123 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
124 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
125 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
126 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
127 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
128 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall
129 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
130 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
131 Lynne Malcom 8a Thai Dream