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Angela Mudge

{{short description|Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner}}

{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Angela Mudge

| image = Mudge carnethy colours.jpg

| caption = Angela Mudge, photographed after winning the 2008 Ben Nevis Race, part of the Skyrunner World Series

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1970|07|08}}

| birth_place = Tavistock, Devon, England, UK

| death_date =

| death_place =

| other_names =

| known_for = Skyrunning, Fell running

| website = [http://www.angelamudge.co.uk/ angelamudge.co.uk]

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Sport|Skyrunning{{ cite web | url = https://carnethy.com/intro-club/hall-of-fame/ | title = Carnethy 'Hill of Fame' | publisher = Carnethy Hill Running Club | access-date = 22 July 2022 }}}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2010 Canazei|{{nowrap|Vertical km}}}}

{{Medal|Sport|Ultra running}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Trail Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2009 Briançon|68 km trail}}

{{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2011 Llandudno|55 km trail}}

{{Medal|Silver|2011 Llandudno|Team}}

{{Medal|Sport|Mountain running}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2000 Bergen|Individual}}

{{Medal|Gold|2003 Girdwood|Team}}

{{Medal|Silver|2003 Girdwood|Individual}}

{{Medal|Silver|2005 Wellington|Team}}

{{Medal|Bronze|1999 Sabah|Team}}

{{Medal|Competition|European Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|1999 Carinthia|Individual}}

{{Medal|Silver|2001 Cerklje|Individual}}

{{Medal|Silver|2003 Trento|Individual}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2002 Madeira|Team}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2003 Trento|Team}}

{{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver|2009 Keswick|Team overall}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2009 Keswick|Team uphill}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Masters Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2005 Keswick|Over 35's}}

{{Medal|Gold|2010 Korbielow|Over 40's}}

}}

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),[http://www.shr.uk.com/Championship.aspx?ChampionshipID=C-001 SHR championships page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402105441/http://shr.uk.com/Championship.aspx?ChampionshipID=C-001 |date=2 April 2007 }}, SHR.UK.com the British Fell Running Championships five times (1997–2000, 2008),[http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/results/champsolder/british.pdf List of British Champions], British Fellrunning Association website and holds the women's record on more than thirteen courses in Scotland alone.[http://www.scottishhillracing.co.uk/RunnerDetails.aspx?RunnerID=R1209 Profile at scottishhillracing.co.uk] On the international stage she won the Women's World Mountain Running Trophy in 2000,[http://www.wmra.info/results00a.php "16th World Mountain Running Trophy 2000"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006091624/http://www.wmra.info/results00a.php |date=6 October 2007 }}, WMRA website the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in 2005,[http://www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk/display.var.631216.0.0.php "Munich Olympian finds Masters touch"], Mike Addison, Westmoreland Gazette, 16 September 2005 and the Buff Skyrunner World Series in 2006 and 2007.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104031/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?i_d_c=237 "Mejía and Mudge, new 2006 World Champions"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 1 October 2006{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071017065754/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2007&i_d_c=356 "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.[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jun/01/6 "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 "[w]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.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2380766,00.html "Left to climb her own very lonely mountain"]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, 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".[https://archive.today/20130131163205/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/901434181.html?did=901434181&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT "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.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/1118614.stm "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.{{Cite journal|last=Mudge|first=Angela|date=1999|title=Mass spectrometric characterisation of priority pollutants|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/15448/Mudge1999.Pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|journal=University of Edinburgh PhD Depository|language=en}}

Although born and raised in Devon, Mudge has only ever represented Scotland at international level, commenting that "[i]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."[http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/prrls02/20010107.html "Champion Mudge remains down to earth"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041102234757/http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/prrls02/20010107.html |date=2 November 2004 }}, Simon Buckland, The Sunday Times, 7 January 2001

National and international career

Mudge came late to hill running by comparison with more mainstream athletics competitors, not recording results until her mid-twenties, but developed quickly thereafter. Placed only 49th in the British Fell Running Championship in 1995, she won the event four times in succession from 1997 to 2000. In between times, she scored a fourth-place finish in the 1997 European Mountain Running Trophy, and also won the Scottish Hill Running Championships in 1997 and 1998, and the Scottish Cross Country Championship in 1999.[http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=30&itemType=athletes&itemId=24 Profile at scottishathletics.org.uk] She showed equally rapid development on the international stage, placing 46th in the 11th World Mountain Running Trophy when it was held in Scotland in 1995, five years prior to winning the event outright in 2000.[http://www.wmra.info/wmraresult4.php?name=mudge Statistics for Angela Mudge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021213111/http://www.wmra.info/wmraresult4.php?name=mudge |date=21 October 2007 }}, World Mountain Running Association website

She continued her international success in 1999, the year she broke the course record for the prestigious {{Convert|4100|m|-2}} Mount Kinabalu Climbathon in Sabah, Malaysia, as she won the race and the US$2,500 prize.[http://www.iol.ie/~imra/climb99m.htm 1999 Mount Kinabalu climbathon report], Douglas Barry Mudge also triumphed in similar record-breaking style in the 2001 Cinq 4,000s in Sierre-Zinal, Switzerland, becoming the first woman to achieve a sub-three-hour time on the {{Convert|31|km}} course.[http://services.datasport.com/2001/lauf/zinal/ Sierre-Zinal 2001 results] (French)

Image:Angela mudge whangie2007.jpg

In the European Mountain Running Trophy, her best results have been as runner up in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Carinthia, Austria in 1999,[http://www.gbrathletics.com/bm/mr.htm British Medallists/Placings in World and European Mountain Running Trophies], gbrathletics.com website which she repeated in 2001 in Slovenia, finishing behind Russian Svetlana Demidenko,[http://www.wmra.info/results01a.php 2001 European Mountain Running Trophy results] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060915113621/http://www.wmra.info/results01a.php |date=15 September 2006 }}, WMRA website and again in 2003 in Trento, Italy, when Belgium's Catherine Lallemand won.[http://www.wmra.info/resultladies.pdf 2003 European Mountain Running Trophy results] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908183537/http://www.wmra.info/resultladies.pdf |date=8 September 2006 }}, WMRA website She won the women's World Mountain Running Trophy in Bergen, Germany against expectations in 2000; as with all even-numbered years, the Trophy race followed the international style, which typically only involves an ascent. Mudge is more experienced in British fell-running, which includes running up and down hills, but found success despite being unable to exploit her greater descending experience.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} Mudge herself described the WMRT win as "the pinnacle of my career" in a June 2008 interview.[http://www.inthewinningzone.com/wz/Magazine/June-2008/Run-for-the-hills/316/ "Run for the hills"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713050756/http://www.inthewinningzone.com/wz/Magazine/June-2008/Run-for-the-hills/316/ |date=13 July 2011 }}, Iain Clark, In the Winning Zone, June 2008

Following her World Mountain Running Trophy win, she was one of only five Britons nominated at the 2001 Laureus World Sports Awards, alongside footballer David Beckham, rower Steve Redgrave, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards and boxer Lennox Lewis. However, she was unable to attend the ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London because she had already booked a long-planned holiday to the Antipodes and, she claimed, "...didn't possess a little black dress, and would only have wandered around collecting autographs."

She finished second behind New Zealand's Melissa Moon in the 2003 World Mountain Running Trophy, held in Girdwood, Alaska. Compatriots Tracey Brindley finished third and Lyn Wilson eighteenth, and these combined results meant Scotland won the Women's Team championship.[http://www.mountainrunning.com/WMRT2003Women.htm World Mountain Running Trophy 2003 results] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516001543/http://www.mountainrunning.com/WMRT2003Women.htm |date=16 May 2006 }}, WMRT website She also won the 2003 Pikes Peak Marathon, which she only entered as a warm up for the Alaska race.[http://www.runningtimes.com/rt/articles/?id=4316&c=160 "On the Trail With... Angela Mudge"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211123944/http://runningtimes.com/rt/articles/?id=4316&c=160 |date=11 December 2007 }}, Running Times article written by Mudge, published December 2003 Her victory in 4h 19m 38s not only set an age-group record for the {{Convert|4300|m}} peak, it marked the only defeat in six years for Los Alamos, New Mexico runner Erica Larson, the most successful woman in the event's history.[http://www.skyrunner.com/story/2003m1.htm "Race gets ugly after women reach summit"], Odeen Domingo, Colorado Springs Gazette, 18 August 2003

2005 injuries

Mudge missed much of the 2005 season, first recuperating from an operation to rehabilitate a damaged knee which left her on crutches, and then succumbing to a bout of plantar fasciitis between May and July. Of her surgery, Mudge said: "I'd worn away all my knee cartilage – more to do with my running style than the sport itself. I was running on the bare bone of my femur, so the surgeon drilled a lot of holes, which stimulates scar tissue, and eventually, I could run again. My knee was more painful afterwards than before. I was prepared for that, but was allowed to run for only ten minutes even months after the operation. I deliberately did not ask about the success or failure rate in order to keep a positive frame of mind. It was only six months later that a physiotherapist told me there were lots of people for whom the operation did not work."

On her return from injury, she won three races in Switzerland and placed second in their National Championship. Her prizes included a large raclette cheese and a CHF50 voucher for a local florist. She had to decline the latter, as she had no place for a vase of flowers—she lives in a tent when touring the circuit, cooking over a gas stove and travelling to events by bicycle.

Although she missed most of the summer, she recovered sufficiently to win the fifth World Masters Mountain Running Championships in England's Lake District in September.

Skyrunning

Image:Mudge bennevis interview.jpg]]

For 2006 Mudge became a member of the Team SaabSalomon Adventure Running Team, and competed in the Buff Skyrunner World Series, a grand prix of eight high altitude endurance races around the globe.[http://www.teamsaabsalomon.com/ Team SaabSalomon website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040611145046/http://www.teamsaabsalomon.com/ |date=11 June 2004 }} She did not participate in the opening race in Hidalgo, Mexico, but was victorious in four successive subsequent rounds in Zegama, Spain,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140821071342/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?i_d_c=163 "Mexico’s Mejia does it again"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 30 May 2006 Valposchiavo, Switzerland,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051632/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?i_d_c=178 "Schiessl and Mudge, winners in Valposchiavo"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 11 June 2006 Nagano, Japan,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140821071344/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?i_d_c=189 "Japan – winners Dapit and Mudge"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 26 June 2006 and Canazei, the Dolomites, Italy,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051857/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?i_d_c=203 "Dolomites SkyRace. Victory and record for Agustí Roc and Angela Mudge"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 24 July 2006 breaking the course record on each occasion. She missed two subsequent events following the loss of her twin sister to cancer,[http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=the-sky-s-the-limit-&method=full&objectid=18470802&siteid=66633-name_page.html "The Sky's the Limit"], interview with Angela Mudge, Fiona Russell, Daily Record, 15 January 2007 but her third place in the 20th Mount Kinabalu Climbathon in Malaysia in the final event of the season ensured she won the Series overall,[http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news_sports.php?id=222519 "Anna Pichtrova Clinches Fifth Crown At Mt Kinabalu Climbathon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009123438/http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news_sports.php?id=222519 |date=9 October 2006 }}, Malaysian National News Agency, 30 September 2006 along with the €3000 prize. She also regained her Scottish Hill Running Championship title in 2006, winning all four of the events she entered.

Team SaabSalomon retained Mudge's services for the 2007 Skyrunner Series, and she subsequently won the first three races in which she competed, in Berga, Berguedà, in the Catalan region of Spain,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20171029174029/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2007&i_d_c=287 "Raúl García and Angela Mudge, winners in Berga"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 20 May 2007 Vallnord in Andorra,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20171030004259/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2007&i_d_c=312 "Kilian Jornet and Angela Mudge won in Andorra"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 22 July 2007 and the Dolomites in Italy.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20171029173229/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2007&i_d_c=324 "Mitja Kosovelj and Angela Mudge win the Dolomites SkyRace"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 30 July 2007 A second-place finish in the Zegama-Aizkorri Alpine Marathon was enough to see her retain her title in 2007.

After her skyrunning success, Mudge travelled to Nepal in November 2007 to participate in the twelfth Everest Marathon, the world's highest marathon which starts only two hours from Everest Base Camp, at an altitude of {{Convert|5200|m}}.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/7134063.stm "Peak performance"], Bryn Palmer, BBC Sport, 8 December 2007 She finished eighth overall, the first woman and the second westerner out of 80 participants, setting a course record of 5h 3m, thirteen minutes ahead of the previous mark.[http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.1894886.0.0.php "Mudge: toughest race ever"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502023322/http://www.theherald.co.uk/sport/headlines/display.var.1894886.0.0.php |date=2 May 2008 }}, Kevin Ferrie, The Herald, 11 December 2007[https://web.archive.org/web/20081007151442/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3182271.ece "Scottish woman on top of world"], Melanie Reid, The Times, 14 January 2008

She was an occasional competitor in the 2008 series, winning in Valposchiavo, Switzerland,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104211/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2008&i_d_c=397 "Jornet and Mudge, win at Valmalenco-Valposchiavo"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 6 June 2008 and her home event in Fort William, Scotland.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140821071237/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2008&i_d_c=425 "Agusti Roc and Angela Mudge winners of the Ben Nevis Race in Fort William"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 6 September 2008 She also finished second in the other two races she entered, the WMRA Grand Prix in Saillon-Ovronaz, Switzerland,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104226/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2008&i_d_c=419 "The world-wide èlit of the Skyrunning met in Sierre Zinal"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 13 August 2008 and the Sky Marathon de la Grigne in Italy.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051853/http://www.buffskyrunner.com/news/detail.php?year=2008&i_d_c=431 "Kilian Jornet and Corinne Favre winners of World Series 2008"]}}, Buff Skyrunner World Series website news, 23 September 2008 However, a record-breaking performance by rival Corinne Favre in the latter denied Mudge a third successive championship.

In domestic competition, she became the British Fell Running Champion for the fifth time in 2008,[http://correrxmuntanya.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sam-murphy-joins-angela-mudge "Sam Murphy Joins Angela Mudge On A Fell-Running Adventure"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223185842/http://correrxmuntanya.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sam-murphy-joins-angela-mudge |date=23 February 2009 }}, Sam Murphy, Financial Times, December 2008 after winning all four races in which she competed.[http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/champs08.htm "2008 Championships"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015112806/http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/champs08.htm |date=15 October 2009 }}, Fellrunner.org.uk

Selected results

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
style="width:5em" | Year

! colspan=2 style="width:50em" | Event{{ cite web | url = https://www.scotstats.net/competition/off-track/ultra/ | title = ULTRA DISTANCE | publisher = SCOT STATS | access-date = 22 July 2022 }}
{{ cite web | url = https://www.scotstats.net/competition/off-track/mountain/ | title = MOUNTAIN RUNNING | publisher = SCOT STATS | access-date = 22 July 2022 }}

! style="width:25em" | Location

! style="width:5em" | Result

rowspan=4 align="center" | 1997

| rowspan=2 | European Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Ebensee, Austria

| align="center" | 4th

Team championship

| align="center" | 9th

colspan=3 | British Fell Running Championship

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

colspan=3 | Scottish Hill Running Championship

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=2 align="center" | 1998

| colspan=3 | British Fell Running Championship (2)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

colspan=3 | Scottish Hill Running Championship (2)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=7 align="center" | 1999

| rowspan=2 | European Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Bad Kleinkirchheim, Carinthia, Austria

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Team championship

| align="center" | 5th

colspan=3 | British Fell Running Championship (3)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

colspan=2 | Inter-Counties Cross Country Championship

| align="center" | Wollaton Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

rowspan=2 | World Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2; align="center" | Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

| align="center" | 7th

Team championship

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

colspan=2 | Mount Kinabalu Climbathon

| align="center" | Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=5 align="center" | 2000

| rowspan=2 | European Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Miedzygorze, Poland

| align="center" | 5th

Team championship

| align="center" | 10th

rowspan=2 | World Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Bergen, Germany

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

Team championship

| align="center"| 8th

colspan=3 | British Fell Running Championship (4)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=5 align="center" | 2001

| colspan=2 | Cinq 4,000s

| align="center" | Sierre-Zinal, Switzerland

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

rowspan=2 | European Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Cerklje, Slovenia

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Team championship

| align="center" | 6th

rowspan=2 | World Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Arta Terme, Italy

| align="center" | 5th

Team championship

| align="center"| 4th

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=4 align="center" | 2002

| rowspan=2 | European Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Câmara de Lobos—Madeira, Portugal

| align="center" | 5th

Team championship

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

rowspan=2 | World Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Innsbruck, Austria

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Team championship

| align="center" | 8th

rowspan=5 align="center" | 2003

| rowspan=2 | European Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Trento, Italy

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Team championship

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

colspan=2 | Pikes Peak marathon

| align="center" | Pikes Peak, Colorado

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

rowspan=2 | World Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Girdwood, Alaska

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Team championship

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

rowspan=2 align="center" | 2004

| colspan=2 | Mount Kinabalu Climbathon (2)

| align="center" | Sabah, Malaysia

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

colspan=3 | Scottish Cross Country Championship

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=3 align="center" | 2005

| rowspan=2 | World Mountain Running Trophy

| Individual championship

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Wellington, New Zealand

| align="center" | 20th

Team championship

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

colspan=2 | World Masters Mountain Running Championship

| align="center" | Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=7 align="center" | 2006

| rowspan=6 | Buff Skyrunner Series

| Zegama-Aizkorri Mendi Maratoia

| align="center" | Zegama, Spain

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

5^ SkyRace Internaz. Valmalenco/Valposchiavo

| align="center" | Valposchiavo, Switzerland

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

OSB Mount Ontake SkyRace

| align="center" | Nagano, Japan

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

Dolomites SkyRace

| align="center" | Canazei, Italy

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

20th Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon

| align="center" | Sabah, Malaysia

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

colspan=2 | 2006 Female World Championship

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

colspan=3 | Scottish Hill Running Championship (3)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=6 align="center" | 2007

| rowspan=5 | Buff Skyrunner Series

| IV Marató de Muntaya de Berga

| align="center" | Berga, Berguedà, Spain

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

III Sky Race Vallnord

| align="center" | Vallnord, Andorra

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

Dolomites SkyRace

| align="center" | Canazei, Italy

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

Maratòn Alpina Zegama-Aizkorri

| align="center" | Zegama, Spain

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 2nd

colspan=2 | 2007 Female World Championship (2)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

colspan=2 | Everest Marathon

| align="center" | Gorak Shep–Namche, Nepal

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

bgcolor=lightgrey

|

rowspan=6 align="center" | 2008

| rowspan=5 | Buff Skyrunner Series

| 7^ SkyRace Internaz. Valmalenco/Valposchiavo

| align="center" | Valposchiavo, Switzerland

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

WMRA Grand Prix

| align="center" | Saillon-Ovronaz, Switzerland

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Ben Nevis Race

| align="center" | Fort William, Scotland

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

Sky Marathon de la Grigne

| align="center" | Sentiero delle Grigne, Pasturo, Italy

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

colspan=2 | 2008 Female World Championship

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

colspan=3 | British Fell Running Championship (5)

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

rowspan = "5"| 2009

| colspan = "2"| IAU Trail World Championships

| align="center" | Serre Chevalier, France

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

rowspan = "4"| Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra Distance Running Championships{{ cite web | url = https://carnethy.com/on_sep2009.htm | title = Carnethy medallists at Commonwealth Ultra Distance & Mountain Running Champs | publisher = Carnethy Hill Running Club | date = 22 September 2009 | access-date = 22 July 2022 }}

| Uphill race

| rowspan = "4" align="center" | Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom

| align="center"| 7th

Uphill team race

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Up and downhill race

| align="center"| 5th

Up & downhill team race

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

rowspan= 2| 2010

| colspan=2 | World Masters Mountain Running Championship

| align="center" | Korbielow, Poland

| align="center" style="background:gold" | 1st

Skyrunning World Championships

| Vertical Kilometer

| align="center"| Canazei, Italy

| align="center" style="background:#cc9966" | 3rd

rowspan=2 | 2011

| rowspan=2 | Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra Distance Running Championships{{ cite web | url = https://worldathletics.org/news/report/commonwealth-mountain-and-ultradistance-champ | title = Commonwealth Mountain and Ultradistance Championships - REPORT | publisher = World Athletics | date = 28 September 2011 | access-date = 22 July 2022 }}
{{ cite web | url = https://www.thefreelibrary.com/North+Wales+proved+it+can+host+big+events%3B+Organisers+delighted+by...-a0268024965 | title = North Wales; Organisers delighted by Commonwealth success | newspaper = Liverpool Daily Post | date = 27 September 2011 | access-date = 22 July 2022 | via = The Free Library }}

| 55 km trail

| rowspan=2 align="center" | Llandudno, Conwy, Wales

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

Team championship

| align="center" style="background:silver" | 2nd

World Cup wins

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! Season

! Date

! Race

! Discipline

1rowspan=4|2006May 28align=left| Maratòn Alpina Zegama-AizkorriSkyRace
2June 11align=left| Valmalenco-ValposchiavoSkyRace
3June 25align=left| OSJ Ontake SkyRaceSkyRace
4July 23align=left| Dolomites SkyRaceSkyRace
5rowspan=3|2007May 20align=left| Marató de Muntanya de BergaSky Marathon
6July 22align=left| SkyRace AndorraSkyRace
7July 29align=left| Dolomites SkyRaceSkyRace
8rowspan=2|2008June 8align=left| Valmalenco-ValposchiavoSkyRace
9September 6align=left| Ben Nevis RaceSkyRace

References

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External links

  • [http://www.angelamudge.co.uk/ Personal website of Angela Mudge]
  • [http://www.carnethy.com/ci_newsletter/int_angelam.htm Interview with Angela Mudge], Carnethy Running Club website
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927164551/http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/common/file.php?disposition=attachment&name0=downloads%2Fscottish_major_event_medallists.pdf List of Scottish medallists], at Scottish Athletics website
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  • {{Power of 10}}
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