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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132 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 Jennifer Wood 8c Stay as You Are, Paklinski Waves, Adventure Time
8 Prudence Morgan-Wood 8c Espacío Tiempo, Mind Control, T1 Full Equip
9 Maddy Cope 8c Bat Route, Mind Control
10 Anna Wild 8c True North, Bat Route
11 Jo Neame 8c True North
12 Katy Whittaker 8b+ China Crisis, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
13 Frances Bensley 8b+ Kale Borroka, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
14 Lucy Creamer 8b+ Kale Borroka
15 Karin Magog 8b+ Mundo Feliz
16 Holly Rees 8b+ Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
17 Ella Russell 8b+ Cringer
18 Anna Soligo 8b+ Verbrecher
19 Gwyneth Uttley 8b+ Kale Borroka
20 Rachel Pearce 8b+ Troppo
21 Michaela Tracy 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies, Ramadán
22 Naomi Buys 8b Wicked Gravity, Stolen
23 Thea Cameron 8b Austrian Oak, 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 Natalie Berry 8b SatanX
30 Shauna Coxsey 8b El Koala R1
31 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
32 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
33 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
34 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
35 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
36 Roxy Elgar 8b Watermark Extension
37 Alice Thompson 8b Stolen
38 Rosa Kellaway 8b Zeke the Freak
39 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
40 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
41 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
42 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
43 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
44 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
45 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ Cross 'n Angry, G.B.H.
46 Rae Cowie 8a+ Boot Boys, Caviar
47 Debbie Birch 8a+ In Brine
48 Ruth Smitton 8a+ Supercool
49 Cherry Bedford 8a+ Pet Cemetry
50 Mia Stacey 8a+ Flix Flax
51 Harriet Ridley 8a+ 100 Proof
52 Nicola Taylor 8a+ Supercool
53 Holly Murray 8a+ Flow
54 Molly Shep 8a+ Oh Saint Léger Fait Moi Monter au Relais
55 Emma Futcher 8a+ Wargames
56 Zoe Wood 8a+ Romocop
57 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
58 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
59 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
60 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
61 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
62 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
63 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
64 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
65 Emma Ransome 8a Bon Vitage, Watermark, Defcon 3, The Bulge
66 Hannah Kerr 8a Ching, Sufferance, Doctor Feelgood, Rodillar
67 Alison Martindale 8a Raindogs, Elite Syncopations, Mediterraneo
68 Rachel Slater 8a Coliseum, Bon Vitage, Latido del Miedo
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 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall, Soft Option
73 Natalie Tanzer 8a El Desafío, Me Cago en el Amor
74 Llinos Cassidy 8a Storm Warning Variation, Vennerne
75 Rebekah Drummond 8a Transilvania, Shimmy Sham
76 Emma Hommard 8a Sticky Wicket-The Ashes, The Bulge
77 Beth Davies 8a Minimal Techno, Ouijaboard
78 Lis Espin 8a Hang Ten, Just Call Me Helmet
79 Charlotte Warner 8a La Cuca, Pinza Time
80 Koon Morris 8a Ching, Axiom
81 Rachel Farmer 8a Raindogs
82 Lucy Ellis 8a Raindogs
83 Kitty Wallace 8a Daniboy
84 Zoe Ogden 8a Raindogs
85 Harriet Hall 8a The Best Off
86 Emily Allen 8a Aberration
87 Sophie Whyte 8a El Salto del Tigre
88 Laura Smitton 8a Ouijaboard
89 Becca Lounds 8a Aberration
90 Ferdia Earle 8a The Invisible Girl
91 Kim Mountney 8a Le Lapin
92 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
93 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
94 Megan Willmott 8a The Sissy
95 Steph Ward 8a Dark Energy
96 Sophie Keltie 8a Reloaded
97 Jemima Churchhouse 8a Aberration
98 Hannah Williams 8a The Bulge
99 Molly Hymes 8a The Thumb
100 Anna Healy 8a The Medium
101 Katie Landon 8a Aberration
102 Nicky Brierly 8a Aberration
103 Jessica Sakura Ward 8a Raindogs
104 Nettie McLanaghan 8a Air Bahal
105 Kate Harrison 8a Mediterranean Dream
106 Charlie Low 8a Le Llamaban Moñas
107 Kirsty Crawshaw 8a Mediterraneo
108 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
109 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
110 Airlie Anderson 8a Rêve du Papillon
111 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
112 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
113 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
114 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
115 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
116 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
117 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
118 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
119 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
120 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
121 Fran Brown 8a Lobos
122 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
123 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina
124 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
125 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
126 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
127 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
128 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
129 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
130 Claudie Dunn 8a Powerplant
131 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
132 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida