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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123 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Emma Twyford 9a Big Bang
2 Hazel Findlay 9a Esclatamàsters
3 Lucy Mitchell 8c Fish Eye, Le Fight du Beau Gosse Intégrale, Pâques Express, Darwin Dans la Cave, Free Fight Intégral
4 Molly Thompson-Smith 8c La Fabelita, Rollito Sharma Extension, Roof Warrior, Intercooler, New Orleans Heavyweight Division
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 Maddy Cope 8c Bat Route, Mind Control
8 Jennifer Wood 8c Stay as You Are, Paklinski Waves
9 Anna Wild 8c True North, Epic Adventures
10 Katy Whittaker 8b+ China Crisis, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
11 Frances Bensley 8b+ Kalea Borroka, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
12 Prudence Morgan-Wood 8b+ Colla d’Arreplegats, Semental
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 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
33 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
34 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
35 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
36 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
37 Natalie Berry 8b Satan X
38 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
39 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
40 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica
41 Rae Cowie 8a+ Caviar, Boot Boys
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 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
52 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
53 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
54 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
55 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
56 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
57 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
58 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
59 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
60 Natalie Tanzer 8a Salva Mea, El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
61 Rachel Slater 8a Coliseum, Latido del Miedo, Bon Vitage
62 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3
63 Alice Thompson 8a Cold Steal, Powerplant, Aberration
64 Emily Johnson 8a Pesadillo, El Salto del Tigre, Defcon 3
65 Katherine Schirrmacher 8a Raindogs, Powerplant
66 Shauna Coxsey 8a Raindogs, Watermark
67 Llinos Cassidy 8a Storm Warning Variation, Vennerne
68 Rebekah Drummond 8a Transilvania, Shimmy Sham
69 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance
70 Roxy Elgar 8a Ze Pequerto, Ching
71 Koon Morris 8a Axiom, Ching
72 Charlotte Warner 8a La Cuca, Pinza Time
73 Lis Espin 8a Just Call Me Helmet, Hang Ten
74 Rachel Farmer 8a Raindogs
75 Lucy Ellis 8a Raindogs
76 Kitty Wallace 8a Daniboy
77 Zoe Ogden 8a Raindogs
78 Harriet Hall 8a The Best Off
79 Emily Allen 8a Aberration
80 Sophie Whyte 8a El Salto del Tigre
81 Laura Smitton 8a Ouijaboard
82 Becca Lounds 8a Aberration
83 Ferdia Earle 8a The Invisible Girl
84 Kim Mountney 8a Le Lapin
85 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
86 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
87 Megan Willmott 8a The Sissy
88 Steph Ward 8a Dark Energy
89 Zoe Wood 8a Never Get Out of the Boat
90 Lucy Ross 8a Sufferance
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 Nicky Brierly 8a Aberration
97 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
98 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
99 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
100 Lynne Malcom 8a Thai Dream
101 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
102 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
103 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
104 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
105 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
106 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
107 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
108 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall
109 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
110 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
111 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
112 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
113 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
114 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
115 Fran Brown 8a Lobos
116 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
117 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
118 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
119 Airlie Anderson 8a Reve de Papillon
120 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
121 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
122 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
123 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas