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 Prudence Morgan-Wood 8c Espacío Tiempo, Mind Control, T1 Full Equip
9 Maddy Cope 8c Bat Route, Mind Control
10 Jennifer Wood 8c Stay as You Are, Paklinski Waves
11 Katy Whittaker 8b+ China Crisis, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
12 Frances Bensley 8b+ Kale Borroka, Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis
13 Lucy Creamer 8b+ Kale 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+ Kale 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 Natalie Berry 8b SatanX
30 Shauna Coxsey 8b El Koala R1
31 Wendy Coles 8b Eurofighter
32 Leah Crane 8b Revelations
33 Hazel Dearlove 8b Love Amongst the Butterflies
34 Willow Petrobelli 8b Putas Clekas
35 Roxy Elgar 8b Watermark Extension
36 Lisa Alhadeff 8b Predator
37 Silvia Fitzpatrick 8b Golpe de Calor
38 Hannah Toward 8b Les Chacals
39 Tanya Meredith 8b Austrian Oak
40 Dalvinder Sodhi 8b Stolen
41 Jemma Powell 8b The Brute
42 Flo Tilley 8a+ Bullet, La Montaña Mágica, Urgent Action
43 Alice Thompson 8a+ Romocop, Tirali Valent, Dimension Diamante
44 Rae Cowie 8a+ Boot Boys, Caviar
45 Anna Gilyeat 8a+ Cross 'n Angry, G.B.H.
46 Debbie Birch 8a+ In Brine
47 Ruth Smitton 8a+ Supercool
48 Cherry Bedford 8a+ Pet Cemetry
49 Mia Stacey 8a+ Flix Flax
50 Harriet Ridley 8a+ 100 Proof
51 Nicola Taylor 8a+ Supercool
52 Holly Murray 8a+ Flow
53 Molly Shep 8a+ Oh Saint Léger Fait Moi Monter au Relais
54 Emma Futcher 8a+ Wargames
55 Zoe Wood 8a+ Romocop
56 Mhairi Thorburn 8a+ Las Clochas de Targa
57 Ako Shillitoe 8a+ Supercool
58 Julie Pearson 8a+ Supercool
59 Amanda Lyons 8a+ Moby Dick
60 Zoë Peetermans 8a+ La Femme Blanche
61 Kate Gascoyne 8a+ Supercool
62 Katie Keeley 8a+ Turkish Airways
63 Helen Dudley 8a+ Path of Excess Power
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 Emma Hommard 8a Sticky Wicket-The Ashes, The Bulge
75 Koon Morris 8a Ching, Axiom
76 Lis Espin 8a Just Call Me Helmet, Hang Ten
77 Charlotte Warner 8a Pinza Time, La Cuca
78 Rachel Farmer 8a Raindogs
79 Lucy Ellis 8a Raindogs
80 Kitty Wallace 8a Daniboy
81 Zoe Ogden 8a Raindogs
82 Harriet Hall 8a The Best Off
83 Emily Allen 8a Aberration
84 Sophie Whyte 8a El Salto del Tigre
85 Laura Smitton 8a Ouijaboard
86 Becca Lounds 8a Aberration
87 Ferdia Earle 8a The Invisible Girl
88 Kim Mountney 8a Le Lapin
89 Glenda Huxter 8a The Shining
90 Anna Moutney 8a Complete Control
91 Megan Willmott 8a The Sissy
92 Steph Ward 8a Dark Energy
93 Sophie Keltie 8a Reloaded
94 Jemima Churchhouse 8a Aberration
95 Hannah Williams 8a The Bulge
96 Molly Hymes 8a The Thumb
97 Anna Healy 8a The Medium
98 Katie Landon 8a Aberration
99 Nicky Brierly 8a Aberration
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 Lynne Malcom 8a Thai Dream
107 Rose Merrett 8a El Guardià
108 Katy Piddock 8a Pren Nota
109 Rebecca Kinghorn 8a Daniboy
110 Sarah Black 8a Vennerne
111 Charlotte Telfer 8a Le Lapin
112 Lou Wilkinson 8a El Salto del Tigre
113 Frances Taylor 8a Defcon 3
114 Gill Peet 8a Toadal Recall
115 Karen Whitehouse 8a Aberration
116 Emily Philips 8a La Cucina Dell'Inferno
117 Tessa Silvestre le Lyon 8a Sombre del Viento
118 Gwen Morgan 8a Vennerne
119 Jessica Mccaskey 8a Sufferance
120 Felicity Butler 8a Statement of Youth
121 Alison Cowley 8a Johnnie Walker
122 Anne Arran 8a Cauchemar de Elephant
123 Airlie Anderson 8a Rêve du Papillon
124 Fran Brown 8a Lobos
125 Sarah Pashley 8a La Tuerie d'Oriol
126 Heather Florence 8a Chryssalida
127 Nat Fenech 8a El Rompebragas
128 Rachel Morrison-Elliot 8a La Perdonavidas
129 Lily Keal 8a Storm Warning Variation
130 Pippa Froggatt 8a Storm Warning Variation
131 Vicki Hau 8a Gracias Fina