Robert Hope (born 3 June 1974) is an English runner who has been a national

fell running Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. The name arises from the origins of the English sport o ...

champion several times and who has represented his country at the World Mountain Running Trophy. Hope had some success in fell running as a junior athlete, being the English champion in the under-20 age group in 1994. The next year, he won his local race,

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, where he went on to be victorious several more times in later years. He was runner-up to Ian Holmes in the 2002 English Fell Running Championships and had a noteworthy set of victories at

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, Grasmere and Kilnsey that year, winning all three races within four days. He was joint winner (with

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) in the English Championships in 2005 due in part to his triumph in the last race of the series at the Langdale Horseshoe immediately after returning from the World Mountain Running Trophy in New Zealand. Hope was the English champion again in 2010 and he won the

British Fell Running Championships The first British Fell Running Championships, then known as Fell Runner of the Year, were held in 1972 and the scoring was based on results in all fell races. In 1976 this was changed to the runner's best ten category A races and further changes t ...

in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2014. Hope represented his country in several editions of the World Mountain Running Trophy, finishing 30th in the 2007 race. He also ran in the European Mountain Running Championships, finishing 27th in

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.WMRA: European Mountain Running Championships 2008.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hope, Rob 1974 births Living people British fell runners British male mountain runners English male long-distance runners