Paula Radcliffe's career, year by year.

Quick answer. Paula Radcliffe's major titles include the 2005 world marathon title, 2002 European 10,000m and Commonwealth 5000m gold, three world cross country titles (junior in 1992, senior in 2001 and 2002) and three world half marathon titles (2000, 2001 and 2003). She won seven major marathons: London in 2002, 2003 and 2005, Chicago in 2002 and New York in 2004, 2007 and 2008. Her 2:15:25 from London 2003 was the world record for 16 years. She was made an MBE in 2002 and an OBE in the 2026 New Year Honours.

What medals did Paula Radcliffe win?

Her World Athletics profile lists her championship results. The gold and silver medals are:

• World Championships: gold in the marathon, Helsinki, 14 August 2005 (2:20:57). Silver in the 10,000m, Seville, 26 August 1999 (30:27.13).
• European Championships: gold in the 10,000m, Munich, 6 August 2002 (30:01.09).
• Commonwealth Games: gold in the 5000m, Manchester, 28 July 2002 (14:31.42).
• World Cross Country Championships: gold in the junior race in 1992 and the senior long race in 2001 and 2002. Silver in the long race in 1997 and 1998 and the short race in 2001.
• World Half Marathon Championships: gold in 2000, 2001 and 2003.
• European Cross Country Championships: gold in 1998 and 2003.

As England Athletics put it in January 2026, she won "World, European and Commonwealth medals across 10,000m, 5000m and cross country."

Paula Radcliffe's career timeline.

Her main titles and marathon wins, in order. Dates, places and marks are from World Athletics.

What was Paula Radcliffe's best year?

World Athletics points to 2002. When it named her its Athlete of the Year that November, it said she "finally emerged in 2002 as a true world beater with spectacular displays on every surface." That year she:

• kept her world cross country title in Dublin on 23 March;
• won the London Marathon on her debut on 14 April;
• was made an MBE in June;
• won Commonwealth 5000m gold on 28 July and European 10,000m gold on 6 August, nine days apart;
• set a marathon world record of 2:17:18 in Chicago on 13 October.

What records did Paula Radcliffe set?

• Marathon world record, twice. 2:17:18 in Chicago on 13 October 2002, when World Athletics noted she had become "the first woman ever to run under 2:18 for the classic distance", then 2:15:25 in London on 13 April 2003, the first woman under 2:16. The 2003 mark stood until 13 October 2019.
• Women-only marathon record. 2:17:42 in London on 17 April 2005, which lasted until 2017.
• British records. World Athletics still marks four of her bests as national records: 3000m (8:22.20, 2002), 5000m (14:29.11, 2004), 10,000m (30:01.09, 2002) and the marathon (2:15:25, 2003).
• London course record. Her 2:15:25 is still the women's course record for a mixed race, according to London Marathon Events.

What happened to the world record, and why there are now two, is in our article on Paula's marathon world record.

What honours has Paula Radcliffe received?

• MBE, June 2002. World Athletics reported that she was "awarded an MBE" in the Queen's Birthday Honours List "in recognition of her sporting achievements".
• IAAF World Athlete of the Year, 2002. Named with Hicham El Guerrouj at the World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo in November 2002.
• BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 2002. Marathon Handbook notes it came in the same year as her MBE.
• John Disley London Marathon Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015. She was its first winner, in the year of her final competitive London Marathon.
• OBE, King's New Year Honours 2026. Awarded for services to sport. She told England Athletics: "This recognition is a huge honour to me and means a great deal."

She was also a four-time Olympian. Loughborough University, where she graduated in 1996 with a first-class degree in Modern European Studies, notes that she went to her first Games in Atlanta that same year. More recently, Loughborough records that she "achieved Six Star Finisher status, completing six World Marathon Majors."

Where Immufix fits.

Paula is a co-owner of the company that makes Immufix, and she has taken it every morning since 1998, through most of the career above. Her own account is on her journey page. It is not a claim about her results. Immufix is one 25g scoop in around 200ml of water, once a day, alongside a varied diet. Vitamin D and magnesium contribute to normal muscle function, vitamin D contributes to the maintenance of normal bones, and vitamin C, zinc and selenium contribute to the normal function of the immune system. Every amount is on the science page.

The short version.

• World marathon champion in 2005, with world 10,000m silver in 1999.
• European 10,000m and Commonwealth 5000m champion in 2002.
• Three world cross country titles, three world half marathon titles and two European cross country titles.
• Seven major marathon wins: London three times, New York three times, Chicago once.
• MBE in 2002, IAAF World Athlete of the Year and BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2002, and an OBE in the 2026 New Year Honours.

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