Scout Adkin

Scout Adkin
Adkin in 2013
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Scottish)
Born (1993-08-16) 16 August 1993 (age 32)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Long-distance running
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Mountain running
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Innsbruck Team uphill and downhill
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Innsbruck Uphill Team

Scout Adkin (born 16 August 1993) is a British long-distance and mountain runner from Scotland. She won the Mountain Running World Cup in 2024 and 2025 and was an individual and team medalist at the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships.[1]

Biography

From Peebles in Scotland,[2] Adkin took part in competetive swimming as a youngster before focusing on running. She is from a sporting family, her brother Jacob Atkin also competes as a runner and was 2019 European Mountain Running champion. She ran a hill race for first time in 2008 as a fifteen year-old, and was UK junior champion in 2011 going on to compete at the 2011 European Mountain Running Championships. She studied at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen for a degree in physiotherapy after which she was based herself in the Lake District, combining running with physio work.[3][4]

Adkin won the silver medal at the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) Nations Cup in Chiavenna, Italy, in October 2021.[5] She made her her senior debut for Great Britain team at the inaugural European Off-Road Running Championships in Spain in 2022, winning gold in the team event, the first Brit to finish individually in fourth overall, in the women's uphill race.[6] She also won the individual bronze medal in the uphill and downhill mountain running event at the championships.[7][8]

Adkin was third at the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships in March 2023 and won a silver medal in the team uphill race and was a bronze medalist in the team up and downhill race at the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships.[9][10] She won the Scottish cross country national title and was nominated for Scottish athlete of the year in 2023.[11][12] That year, Adkin won the Montemuro Vertical Run in Portugal, and was also the 2023 Sky Gran Canaria Vertical winner.[13][14]

Adkin won the silver medal in the women's uphill race in Annecy at the 2024 European Off-Road Running Championships, where her brother also won the silver medal in the men's race.[15] Adkin won the 2024 Mountain Running World Cup, her performances including a win at the Lagunc KM Verticale in Italy.[16][17]

Adkin retained her title at the 2025 Mountain Running World Cup despite missing the final races with injury,[18] having achieved victories in individual events throughout the season from the first event in Bukovina in May at the Zmeu X-Fest Mountain Race, and in Poland, at the Tatra Fest.[19][20][21] She placed fifteenth in the uphill race at the 2025 World Mountain Championships.[22]

References

  1. ^ "Scout Adkin". World Athletics. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  2. ^ "Peebles racer Scout Adkin retains Mountain Running World Cup". Peebleshire News. 28 August 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  3. ^ Barden, Katy (27 Dec 2021). "Scout Adkin on the ups and downs of hill running". Scottish Athletics. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  4. ^ "Running In The Family: An Interview with Scout and Jacob Adkin". wmra.info. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  5. ^ "Victory for Ghelfi and Abraham at WMRA Nations Cup". World Athletics. 31 October 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  6. ^ "FOUR MEDALS FOR THE BRITISH TEAM IN THE UPHILL MOUNTAIN RACES AT THE EURO CHAMPS". World Athletics. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  7. ^ Broadbent, Chris (5 May 2024). "British team finalised for European Off-Road Running Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  8. ^ "GB & NI TEAM FINALISED FOR THE 2023 WORLD MOUNTAIN AND TRAIL RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  9. ^ "Bronze for GB at World Mountain and Trail Running Championships". Runningforthehills. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  10. ^ "Scots land team podium places at World Mountain and Trail Champs". Scottish Athletics. 11 June 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  11. ^ Adams, Tim (6 October 2023). "JOSH KERR NOMINATED FOR SCOTTISH ATHLETE OF THE YEAR". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  12. ^ "The Scot who's reached the summit of mountain running". Herald Scotland. 25 Sep 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  13. ^ Brady, Sarah (October 16, 2023). "Scout Adkin – 2023 Sky Gran Canaria Vertical winner". irunfar.com. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  14. ^ "Adkin and Ricard triumph at Montemuro Vertical Run". World Athletics. 2 July 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  15. ^ Broadbent, Chris (31 May 2024). "Surprises and sibling successes in mountain races". European Athletics. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  16. ^ "Scottish racer Adkin clinches Mountain Running World Cup". BBC News. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  17. ^ "Adkin and Elia win penultimate World Cup race, Lagunc KM Verticale". World Athletics. 12 Oct 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  18. ^ "SCOUT ADKIN CAPTURES WMRA MOUNTAIN RUNNING WORLD CUP TITLE". Athletics Weekly. 25 August 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  19. ^ "Adkin and Machoka triumphant at Tatra Fest". World Athletics. 15 June 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  20. ^ "Adkin and Machoka win Mountain Running World Cup opener". World Athletics. 3 May 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  21. ^ Henderson, Jason (3 May 2025). "SCOUT ADKIN TRIUMPHS AT OPENING WMRA WORLD CUP RACE OF 2025". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  22. ^ "Adkin fifth in uphill race at World Mountain and Trail Running Championships 2025". .britishathletics.org.uk. 25 Sep 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.

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