Paula and husband Gary Lough, a former middle distance runner and athletics coach, moved to the south of France in 2005 and live in a village just outside Monte Carlo with Isla and son Raphael, 14.

Five years ago, world record marathon runner Paula Radcliffe’s now 18-year-old daughter Isla was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer. “We felt it in very different ways,” she remembers.

Paula Radcliffe has run her first marathon in a decade, completing the 26.2-mile distance in less than three hours at the age of 51. Radcliffe, whose 2003 time of 2hr 15min 25sec lasted as the ...

At the 2025 Boston Marathon, Paula Radcliffe clocked a time of 2:53:44, which was several minutes faster than her time in Tokyo, where she finished in a time of 2:57:22.