Hadfield ultramarathon legend's top raises £5,200 for charity

The top worn by Hadfield ultrarunner Jasmin Paris, when she became the first woman to complete the 100-mile Barkley Marathons earlier this year, has sold on eBay for £5,200.

The extreme race, widely thought to be the world’s toughest, takes place each year over five laps of an unmarked trail in Frozen Head State Park, Tennessee, and has only been finished by 20 people since it began in 1986. 

Jasmin made it to the finishing line with just 99 seconds of the 60-hour time limit left, a feat so monumental that the race’s organiser thought it was impossible for a woman to achieve. 

However, the 40-year-old is no stranger to confounding expectations. 

Her time of 83 hours 12 minutes lopped 12 hours off the previous record in 2019’s Spine Race, which follows the full 268-mile route of the Pennine Way from Edale to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders, all while expressing milk for her daughter at checkpoints. 

Her exploits even saw her awarded an MBE in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List. 

“I was so desperate to stop running and just walk,” she told BBC Breakfast after completing the Barkley. “But I couldn’t because I knew I wouldn’t make it. 

“I just forced myself to keep running, because it was the thought that if I didn’t make it this time, it’d be by seconds, and then I’d have to come back and do the whole thing again. I would never have let it rest.” 

The funds from Jasmin’s signed – and washed – jersey from the Barkley Marathons will be donated to Street Child, an international charity that helps children in some of the world’s poorest regions into education.