Hayley Higham is a British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 runner

Running

Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...

. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Liz Yelling

Liz Yelling

Elizabeth Anne Yelling is a British long-distance runner currently based in Poole, Dorset...

. She married Jamie Higham in 2009.

She works as a Maths teacher at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

Sir William Borlase's Grammar School is a selective state grammar school accepting girls and boys aged 11–18 located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated on West Street, close to the town centre and also accepts students from nearby towns...

 in Marlow

Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England...

, Buckinghamshire and runs for the Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletics Club. She has competed for England in the Commonwealth Games and for Great Britain in a number of competitions. In December 2004 she won the European Cross Country Championship

2004 European Cross Country Championships

The 11th European Cross Country Championships were held at Heringsdorf in Germany on 12 December 2004. Serhiy Lebid took his fifth title in the men's competition and Hayley Yelling won the women's race.-Men individual 9.64km:Total 89 competitors-Men teams:...

 in Heringsdorf.

In December 2009 she won the European Cross Country Championship

2009 European Cross Country Championships

The 2009 European Cross Country Championships was a continental cross country running competition that was held on 13 December 2009 in Dublin, Ireland. Dublin was selected as the host city in 2007 and the event was the first time that a major European athletics championships took place in Ireland...

 in Dublin after coming out of retirement from competitive running. She followed this up a month later by coming fourth in the 2010 International Edinburgh Cross Country fourteen seconds after winner Tirunesh Dibaba

Tirunesh Dibaba

Tirunesh Dibaba also known as Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene is an Ethiopian long distance track athlete and the outdoor 5000 metres world record holder. She is the current Olympic 5000 metres and 10,000 metres champion...

 over the freezing 5.8 kilometre course.

Career highlights

British National Championships

2002 - 1st, 5,000 m

2003 - 1st, 10,000 m

2003 - 1st, 5,000 m

2006 - 1st, 5,000 m

Other competitions

2007 - 1st, Cross Internacional de San Sebastián

2008 - 1st, Belfast International Cross Country

2009 - 1st, European Cross Country Championships

European Cross Country Championships

The European Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition. Organised by the European Athletic Association, it is the area championships for the region and is held in December each year...

Personal bests

Distance	Mark	Date	Location
3,000 m	9:11.74	July 5, 2000	Cardiff Cardiff Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
5,000 m	15:16.44	July 23, 2005	Heusden Heusden Heusden is a municipality and a city in the South of the Netherlands. It is located between the cities Waalwijk and 's-Hertogenbosch.- Population centres :...
10,000 m track	31:45.14	June 12, 2004	Utrecht Utrecht (city) Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
10,000 m road	32:50.00	October 28, 2007	Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
Half marathon	1:14.52	October 4, 2003	Vilamoura Vilamoura Vilamoura is in the municipality of Loulé, in the Algarve, Portugal. Its boundaries lie within the parish of Quarteira. Vilamoura is a purpose built resort and Marina which was started from scratch by a wealthy banker from Porto, Cupertino de Miranda. The resort was started in 1974 and is still...

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