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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128 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 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
30 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
31 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
32 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
33 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
34 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
35 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
36 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
37 Natalie Berry 8b Satan X
38 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
39 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
40 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
41 Alice Thompson 8a+ Romocop, Tirali Valent, Dimension Diamante
42 Rae Cowie 8a+ Boot Boys, Caviar
43 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ Cross 'n Angry, G.B.H.
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 Emma Futcher 8a+ Wargames
53 Zoe Wood 8a+ Romocop
54 Roxy Elgar 8a+ Turkish Airways
55 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
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 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
62 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
63 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3, The Bulge
64 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance, Doctor Feelgood, Rodillar
65 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
66 Natalie Tanzer 8a Salva Mea, El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
67 Rachel Slater 8a Coliseum, Latido del Miedo, Bon Vitage
68 Emily Johnson 8a Pesadillo, El Salto del Tigre, Defcon 3
69 Lucy Ross 8a Sufferance, Stanton Stereotype, Salva Mea
70 Katherine Schirrmacher 8a Raindogs, Powerplant
71 Shauna Coxsey 8a Watermark, Raindogs
72 Llinos Cassidy 8a Storm Warning Variation, Vennerne
73 Rebekah Drummond 8a Transilvania, Shimmy Sham
74 Koon Morris 8a Ching, Axiom
75 Lis Espin 8a Just Call Me Helmet, Hang Ten
76 Charlotte Warner 8a Pinza Time, La Cuca
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 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
89 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
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 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
103 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
104 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
105 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
106 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
107 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
108 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
109 Airlie Anderson 8a Rêve du Papillon
110 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
111 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
112 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
113 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
114 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
115 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
116 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
117 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
118 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
119 Fran Brown 8a Lobos
120 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
121 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
122 Lynne Malcom 8a Thai Dream
123 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
124 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
125 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
126 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
127 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
128 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall