1973: Born December 17, Northwich, Cheshire.
1992: Wins World Junior Cross Country Championship.
1993: Begins her senior career with a series of strong performances.
1994: Misses the whole of the season due to injury.
1995: Finishes fifth in the 5,000 metres at the World Championships.
1996: Comes fifth in the final of 5,000m at the Atlanta Olympics. Wins Fifth Avenue Mile in New York.
1997: Retains Fifth Avenue Mile title in New York. Finishes third in the IAAF World Cross Challenge series, and fourth in the World Championships 5,000m final.
1998: Comes back from injury to win European cross country title. Moves up to 10,000m and makes the fastest-ever track debut (30mins 48.58secs) - setting a new Commonwealth record - for the event in coming second at the European Challenge. Sets world road best for five miles at Balmoral, with a run of 24mins 54secs.
1999: Shaves nearly eight seconds off her Commonwealth 10,000m record in the European Challenge in Spain. Returns to Balmoral to break her record and also sets a world best at 8km in 24mins 38secs.
Sets a British record for two miles in the Loughborough International, breaks UK record for 5,000m at the British Grand Prix and Zola Budd's 14-year-old Commonwealth record at 3,000m in Zurich.
In Seville she is passed on the last lap of the World Championships 10,000m after leading for most of the race but picks up a silver medal in a new Commonwealth record of 30mins 27.13secs.
Voted British Female Athlete of the Year.
2000: Front-running tactics in the 10,000m at the Sydney Olympics bring a
disappointing fourth but another British and Commonwealth record.
Sets a European half marathon record to win the Great North Run, before
claiming the world half marathon title in Mexico.
2001: Wins world cross country title in Ostend but is beaten in the 4km race the following day.
Sets another British and Commonwealth 3,000m record - 8mins 26.97secs - in Rome and a personal best of 4mins 5.37secs just two days later over 1500m in Glasgow.
Finishes fourth behind three Ethiopians after another brave run in the 10,000m at the World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, but is remembered just as much for her trackside 'EPO Cheats Out' banner protest against Olga Yegorova's participation in the 5,000m.
Smashes British and Commonwealth records for 5,000m with 14mins 32.44secs
behind Olga Yegorova and Gete Wami in Berlin, and equals the world road best for 5km (14:57) in London's Hyde Park.
Retains her world half marathon title in Bristol, improving her European
record to 66:47.
Voted British Female Athlete of the Year for a second time.
Announces plans to run in the London Marathon - her first attempt at the
distance.
2002: March - Successfully defends her world cross country title in Dublin.
April 14 - Wins Flora London Marathon on her debut in the event, clocking a European record time of 2:18.56 and the second fastest time ever, just nine seconds outside the world record.
June 15 - Awarded MBE for services to athletics.
July 28 - Wins Commonwealth Games 5,000 metres gold medal, in new personal time of 14:31.43.
August Wins European 10,000m gold medal at European Championships in Munich.
October 13 - Wins Chicago Marathon in new world-record time of 2hrs 17mins 18secs - chipping 89 seconds off the previous best time.
December 8 - Voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2002.
2003
February 23 - Breaks 10km world record by eight seconds, setting a new time of 30mins 21secs in Puerto Rico.
April 13 - Breaks her own world marathon record by running a time 2:15.25 to successfully defend her London title.
July 1 - Pulls out of Norwich Union London Grand Prix in August with a leg injury.
July 23 - Announces she will further delay her decision whether or not to
compete at the World Championships in Paris because of leg injury and a bout of bronchitis.
August 12 - Confirmed in the Great Britain squad for the World Championships in Paris.August 15 - Pulls out of World Championships because of fitness concerns.
September - Returns to action running 30:51 for 10km in the Nike London
Challenge.
Sets world 5km road-race best at Flora Light Challenge in Hyde Park, with
14:51.
Runs world's fastest-ever half marathon of 1:05:40 to win Great North Run.
November - Wins third World Half Marathon title in Vilamoura.
Beaten on first leg of Chiba Ekiden International Relay in Japan, her first loss since July 2002. Identifies magnesium deficiency as the cause of below-par performance.
December - Wins second European Cross Country title in Edinburgh and leads GB side to first-ever success.
2004: February - Fails to retain Puerto Rico 10km title, finishing second and suffering from a virus.
March - Pulls out of World Cross Country Championships with a hamstring
injury. Problem later identified as a hernia and undergoes minor operation in Munich.
June - Returns to action and sets new European 5,000m record of 14:29.11 at the European Cup final in Poland.
Runs the world's fastest 10,000m of 2004 - 30:17.15 - at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Gateshead.
August 22 - Pulls out of the women's Olympic marathon at the 36km mark.
August 27 - Pulls up in women's Olympic 10,000metres final.
November 7 - Marks remarkable comeback 11 weeks after her Athens
disappointment by winning a sprint finish in the high-profile New York City Marathon.
2005
April 17 - Wins Flora London Marathon in a women's-only world record time of 2:17.42 despite an impromptu toilet stop.
June 4 - Finishes sixth in the 1500m Prefontaine Grand Prix Classic in Eugene, Oregon after a collision.
June 14 - Agrees to run in the 3,000 and 5,000m at the Spar European Cup final in Leiria, Portugal.
June 20 - Wins 3,000m at the European Cup, and second in the 5,000m
August 6 - Finishes ninth in the 10,000m at the World Championships in Helsinki, but admits she is using the race as a warm-up for the marathon.
August 14 - Wins World Championship marathon in 2:20.57 in Helsinki.
2006: October - Six months pregnant, runs a 10km race.
2007: January 16 - Gives birth to her first child, Isla, in Monaco.
January 28 - Returns to training.
September 30 - Returns to competitive action after 21 months, finishing second to American Kara Goucher at the BUPA Great North Run.
October 2 - Confirmed she will compete at the New York City marathon.
November 4 - Wins the United States event by 23 seconds from Wami.
2008: March 6 - Withdraws from London Marathon with toe injury.
May 17 - Revealed Radcliffe has suffered a hip injury.
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