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- ↑ Steve Chilton, It's a Hill, Get Over It (Dingwall, 2013), 143-44.
- ↑ English Champions.
- ↑ English Fell Running Championships 2019
- ↑ English Fell Running Championships 2021
- ↑ "Transgender athlete jailed | Lancashire Evening Post". Archived from the original on 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-07.