Other Achievements and Awards
- Awarded the BBC London Sports Awards 2003 for 'Sporting Moment of the Year'.
- Radcliffe has set numerous records, official and unofficial, on the track and the roads. As of November 2009, she holds the official world record for 10 km on roads. She has twice won the World Half-Marathon championships, twice the World Cross-Country championships (in 2001 and 2002), and in December 2003 became European Cross-Country champion for the second time, the only woman to have achieved this feat in the event's ten-year history.
- In 2004 Radcliffe joined with Jonathan Edwards on an Olympic Special Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The pair raised £64,000 for charity, half of that sum going to the British Olympic Association and a quarter of the sum going to Asthma UK.
- Nominated for the Sports Personality Award in 2007.
- Won the Laureus World Comeback of the Year award in early 2008 for her performances in 2007.
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