Paula Jane Radcliffe is a British former long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon, three-time New York Marathon champion, the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner, and the 2005 World Champion in the marathon. She was previously the fastest female marathoner of all time, and held the women's marathon world record with a time of 2:15:25 for 16 years from 2003 to 2019, when it was broken by Brigid Kosgei. Paula Radcliffe (United Kingdom) set the women's marathon world record of 2:15:25 in London Marathon on April 13, 2003. It stood 2 years, until Paula Radcliffe's 2:17:42 on April 17, 2005. Wiki link