Charlotte Arter (born 18 June 1991) is a British distance athlete. Arter comes from

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...

but represents

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in athletics, having qualified via the residency rule. Arter previously worked for

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

, managing their high performance athletics programme. She is the current Welsh record holder in the

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. She is the current joint women's

Parkrun Parkrun (stylised as parkrun) is a collection of 5K run, events for runners, walkers and volunteers that take place every Saturday morning at more than 2,000 locations in 23 countries across five continents. Parkrun was founded by Paul Sinto ...

record holder, setting a time of 15 minutes and 49 seconds at

Cardiff Parkrun Cardiff parkrun is a parkrun event that takes place every Saturday morning at 9 am in Cardiff, Wales. The parkrun was the first in Wales and has become the second largest in the UK. The run was started on 16 February 2008 and celebrated its 10th ...

on 1 February 2020. She was the 2018 British 10,000m champion. Arter was selected to represent Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, but she had to withdraw for medical reasons and did not compete.

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* * 1991 births Living people British long-distance runners Parkrun Sportspeople from Cumbria {{Wales-athletics-bio-stub