Katharine Ford

Katharine Ellen Ford (born 25 April 1986) in Glasgow, is a British ultra-cyclist and epilepsy campaigner.

She is currently a Trustee of London disability sport charity Interactive,^[1] and former Trustee of the Herne Hill Velodrome Trust in London.^[2]

To date Katharine is still the youngest British female to officially complete the Race Across America,^[3] across all its categories, in her 4 lady team, aged 22 years and 2 months while still an Undergraduate student. She graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in Sport, from Durham University in 2010.

In 2012, she was nominated to carry the Olympic flame, which she did on the 26 July 2012 in the London Borough of Camden. Her nomination was for her achievement in cycling and in raising epilepsy awareness.^[4][5]

She is the daughter of the Labour Party peer Baroness Ford. Politically, she has campaigned for election to local council office several times representing the Labour Party, without success, in both Durham and Glasgow. In 2008, she contested the Elvet ward in the elections for Durham County Council, coming seventh of seven candidates. In 2015, she contested a by-election in the Anderston/City ward of Glasgow City Council.

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