Personal Life
Paula Radcliffe was born to Peter and Pat Radcliffe Radcliffe is the niece of 1920 Olympic Silver medalist Charlotte Radcliffe. Radcliffe met her husband Gary Lough, a former Northern Irish 1,500 m runner, when he was her lodger at Loughborough University. The pair married in 2001. At age 33, she gave birth to her first child, daughter Isla, after a 27-hour labour in 2007. Her second child, a son, Raphael, was born on 29 September 2010.
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