Jonathan Albon (born 19 April 1989) is a British

sky runner Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running above where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons, and hands may ...

and obstacle course racer who has won three

Skyrunner World Series The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...

Biography

Originally from

Great Dunmow Great Dunmow is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies to the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, Essex, Braintree, east of London Stanste ...

in Essex, Albon later moved to live in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

, Norway. He twice won the final ranking of Sky Extreme (2016 and 2017) and has once been the overall winner of the

. As an obstacle racer, he has won the Adventurey

world championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. He has also won the Spartan World Championships in 2014 and 2018. Albon won the Trail World Championships in 2019. In 2021 Albon won the OCC at the

Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) is a mountain ultramarathon race, first held in 2003, that follows the route of the Tour du Mont Blanc. It has been regarded as the most competitive trail ultramarathon in the world. Renamed in 2023 as UTMB W ...

. The following year, he won the Mont Blanc Marathon. He placed second in CCC at UTMB 2022. In 2023 he won CCC at UTMB. In 2024 Albon won the Transvulcania Ultramarathon. He placed 6th in the 2024 Western States 100miler.

2017 SWS Victory

Overall race by race.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Albon, Jonathan 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Essex British sky runners People from Great Dunmow Skyrunning World Championships winners British male long-distance runners IAU Trail World Championships winners English male long-distance runners English expatriate sportspeople in Norway 21st-century English sportsmen