Alyson Dixon

Alyson Dixon
	Alyson Dixon competing at the 2015 Berlin Marathon
Personal information
Nickname(s)	Aly
National team	Team GB; England;
Born	24 September 1978; Sunderland, Tyne & Wear United Kingdom
Height	153 cm (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	42 kg (93 lb)
Website	alydixon.com
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Distance	Marathon; Half marathon; 10K;
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2:29:06 - Marathon; 70:38 - Half marathon; 32:17 - 10K;

Alyson Dixon (born 24 September 1978 in Sunderland) is an English long-distance-runner who has competed in several marathons and half marathons and won the 2011 Brighton Marathon. In September 2019 Alyson won the 50km world championship in Brasov, Romania with a time of 3:07:20 and is the current 50km world record holder. She is also an ambassador for St Benedict's hospice in Sunderland. She often states in interviews the hospice, which specialises in end of life care for cancer patients is close to her heart after losing family members to the illness. [1] She competed for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but did not finish due to an Achilles tendon injury.[2] She first joined an athletics club as a girl when a friend did and because she wanted to go to Flamingo Land Resort as the club was going there.[3]

References

Carr, Kevin (10 April 2013). "Dixon in peak condition ahead of Brighton Marathon". Sunderland Echo. Johnston Press. ISSN 0963-8997. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Sunderland Stroller Alyson Dixon goes into the Brighton Marathon on Sunday in the form of her life. The 34-year-old has recently smashed her personal bests over 10k and the half marathon and impressed many in the Elswick Harriers’ Good Friday Road Relay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/36127873
Dick, Stuart (24 July 2014). "Alyson Dixon on Glasgow 2014, her career and Flamingo Land". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 11 October 2018. One of my friends from school was a member of the local athletics club and they had mentioned they were going to Flamingo Land that summer. So I went along and joined the club so I could go, and then it all escalated from there really.

External links

Aly Dixon's "About Me" page
Alyson Dixon at Power of 10
Alyson Dixon at the International Olympic Committee
Alyson Dixon at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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[1] Carr, Kevin (10 April 2013). "Dixon in peak condition ahead of Brighton Marathon". Sunderland Echo. Johnston Press. ISSN 0963-8997. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Sunderland Stroller Alyson Dixon goes into the Brighton Marathon on Sunday in the form of her life. The 34-year-old has recently smashed her personal bests over 10k and the half marathon and impressed many in the Elswick Harriers’ Good Friday Road Relay.

[2] ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/36127873

[3] Dick, Stuart (24 July 2014). "Alyson Dixon on Glasgow 2014, her career and Flamingo Land". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 11 October 2018. One of my friends from school was a member of the local athletics club and they had mentioned they were going to Flamingo Land that summer. So I went along and joined the club so I could go, and then it all escalated from there really.