Clara Evans

Clara Evans (born 27 November 1993) is an elite British long-distance runner who has represented Great Britain and Wales. She is a member of Pontypridd Roadents Athletics Club and the Welsh Endurance Squad.

The 26th European Athletics Championships will be held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. Clara has been selected to compete for Great Britain in the Women's Half Marathon. Clara finished 9th overall in a PB helping Great Britain won Gold in the team event.

In 2023, she ran a time of 2:25:04 at the Valencia Marathon, breaking the Welsh Record and ranking her seventh in the all-time list for British athletes, this was a Paris Olympics qualification time. This earned her the spot of Olympic reserve for Paris 2024. In 2023, she competed for Great Britain in the woman's half marathon at the World Road Running Championships, held in Riga, Latvia. She finished 22nd, where Great Britain secured a team bronze.

In 2022, she competed for Wales in the women’s marathon at the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England. She finished in ninth place.

In 2021, she finished 5th in the British Olympic Trials and achieved the Commonwealth Games qualification time to represent Wales.

In 2020, she competed for Great Britain in the women's half marathon at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland.

In 2019, she was part of the Cardiff Athletics Club first ever team to win the ERRA Women’s National 4 stage Relays.

On 26th November 2022 she became the joint fastest female ever to complete a UK parkrun at the weekly 5000 metre Cardiff event with a time of 15:49 and third fastest in the world.

She competes domestically and across Europe achieving podium places and race victories, holding numerous course records. At the 2022 and 2024 TCS London Marathon she was the Elite Women’s Pacemaker.

Full details of performances can be viewed on the Power of 10 website. https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=2946929469

Clara is an ASICS Sponsored Athlete and Astra Partners are her Sports Agent https://astrapartners.global/