Alyson Dixon

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. She competed for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, but did not finish due to an ankle injury. 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.