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Angela Mudge (born 8 July 1970) is a Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner. Despite being born with birth defects in both legs, and finding track athletics not to her liking, she discovered her sport while a postgraduate student in Scotland in the mid-1990s, and developed rapidly. She has won the Scottish Hill Running Championships three times (1997, 1998, 2006),〔(SHR championships page ), SHR.UK.com〕 the British Fell Running Championship five times (1997–2000, 2008),〔(List of British Champions ), British Fellrunning Association website〕 and holds the women's record on more than thirteen courses in Scotland alone.〔(Profile at scottishhillracing.co.uk )〕 On the international stage she won the Women's World Mountain Running Trophy in 2000,〔("16th World Mountain Running Trophy 2000" ), WMRA website〕 the World Masters Mountain Running Championship in 2005,〔("Munich Olympian finds Masters touch" ), Mike Addison, ''Westmoreland Gazette'', 16 September 2005〕 and the Buff Skyrunner World Series in 2006 and 2007.〔("Mejía and Mudge, new 2006 World Champions" ), Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 1 October 2006〕〔("Kilian Jornet and Angela Mundge, champions of the Buff Skyrunner 2007" ), Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 24 September 2007〕 She was named on a list of "100 things we still love about sport" by ''The Observer'' newspaper in June 2008.〔("100 things we still love about sport" ), ''The Observer'', 1 June 2008〕 ==Early years== Mudge's start in life did not augur well for a future in endurance running, after she was born with pedal defects; both of Angela's feet and one of her twin sister Janice's were pointing backwards. She has commented that "()e got a bit squashed in the womb", and for the first few years of their lives both girls were required to have their legs in braces and plaster to rectify this.〔("Left to climb her own very lonely mountain" ), Fiona Russell, ''The Sunday Times'', 1 October 2006〕 When she was a teenager she raced on the track, but gave it up out of dissatisfaction with "running in circles".〔("A mountain to climb? Mudge now at her peak" ), Doug Gillon, ''The Herald'', 23 September 2005〕 Even cross-country courses were insufficiently challenging, and it was only following her graduation from the University of Leicester with a BSc in chemistry, when she moved north to the University of Stirling to obtain her master's degree, that she discovered hill running and began to fulfil her potential.〔("Mudge makes Albert Hall date" ), ''BBC Sport'', 15 January 2001〕 When she subsequently moved to the University of Edinburgh to study for her PhD, she joined the Carnethy Hill Running Club, where she remains an active member and competitor. She obtained her doctorate in 2000.〔 Although born and raised in Devon, Mudge has only ever represented Scotland at international level, commenting that "()t would've been tough to have gone back down south and tried to gain selection there. Once I started running for Scotland there seemed no point in changing because they gave me my opportunity."〔("Champion Mudge remains down to earth" ), Simon Buckland, ''The Sunday Times'', 7 January 2001〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angela Mudge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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