Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Radcliffe was born on 17 December 1973 in Davenham near Northwich, Cheshire, England. Her family then moved to nearby Barnton where she attended Little Leigh Primary School.Despite suffering from asthma and anaemia she took up running at the age of seven, influenced by her father who was a keen amateur marathon runner and joined Frodsham Athletic Club. Her family later moved to Kingsley. At the age of 12 the family moved to Oakley, Bedfordshire where she became a member of Bedford Athletic Club. Her father became club vice-chairman and her mother, a fun-runner, managed the women''s cross-country team.She attended Sharnbrook Upper School and Community College, where her classmate was professional footballer Dan Hall, and studied French, German and Economics at Loughborough University, gaining a first-class honours degree in modern European studies.