Jill Clarke Harrison
Jill Harrison (née Clarke; born 20 June 1958) is a retired female long distance runner from Sheffield.
Background
Clarke Harrison grew up in a small village in Derbyshire. She didn't discover running until encouraged in a PE lesson to train for the Sheffield schools championships. This lead her to run for Britain at the age of 19. By this time she had already been 2nd in the English Schools.
She studied at the Birmingham and Loughborough Universities and turned down a scholarship to an American University.
Training
Coaches have included George Gandy, Brian Scoby & Frank Horwill.
Training Partners have included London Marathon winning Véronique Marot, Olympic Silver Medalist Wendy Sly and Angie Pain.
Notable Accolades
She qualified for the Commonwealth Games (but had to pull out due to injury), become World Student Champion and came 14th in the London Marathon.
Her time in the London Marathon, 2 hours 34 minutes 19 seconds was the fastest Marathon debut by a British woman until Paula Radcliffe in 2002.
As of December 2006 she was the 21st fastest 10k female runner in Britain with a time of 32.41 and 22nd fastest 5000m female track runner with 15.34.
Events
- World Student Cross Country Championships Women (individual) Gold Medal Jill Clarke/Harrison 1980 [1]
- Vulcan Run-1987 November 3 place Jill Clarke/Harrison in 33´32´´ [2]
- 10,000 meters 33´27´´ 1st place Hull 22-jun-1986
- 10 kilometers (road) 32´41´´ 4th place Orlando, Florida USA 21-feb-1987
- 15 kilometers (road) 50´27´´ 2nd place Jacksonville, Florida USA 14-mar-1987
- 10 miles (road) 54´27´´ 4th place Washington DC. USA 2-abril-1989
- Half Marathon 1º11´44´´ 1st place Fleet 29-mar-1987
- 25 kilometers (road) 1º30´33´´ 2nd place Glasgow 30-sep-1990
- marathon 2º34´19´´ 14th place London Marathon 23-April-1989 toda esta información está en (http://www.gbrathletics.com/uk/wc99.htm)
Post Running Career
Harrison now lives in the West Country with her husband and two children.