Hayley Yelling

Hayley Higham (born 3 January 1974, in Dorchester) is a British runner. She is the sister-in-law of fellow British runner Liz Yelling.

She works as a Maths teacher at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire and runs for the Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club. She has competed for England in the Commonwealth Games and for Great Britain in a number of competitions. In December 2004 she won the European Cross Country Championship in Heringsdorf.

In December 2009 she won the European Cross Country Championship in Dublin after coming out of retirement from competitive running. She followed this up a month later by coming fourth in the 2010 International Edinburgh Cross Country, fourteen seconds after winner Tirunesh Dibaba over the freezing 5.8 kilometre course.

Career highlights

 * British National Championships
 * 2002 - 1st, 5,000 m
 * 2003 - 1st, 10,000 m
 * 2003 - 1st, 5,000 m
 * 2006 - 1st, 5,000 m


 * Other competitions
 * 2004 - 1st, European Cross Country Championships
 * 2007 - 1st, Cross Internacional de San Sebastián
 * 2008 - 1st, Belfast International Cross Country
 * 2009 - 1st, European Cross Country Championships