Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
There's not much difference in speed and strength between males and females in the youngest junior age groups. I was watching Becky Willoughby's videos of the Coniston Gullies races, where she was positioned a little way up the ascent route (and so towards the end of the descent). In the under-9's, five girls came past on the ascent before the first boy, although on the descent there were two boys in the leading positions, ahead of five girls. In the under 12's, Bleu Bailey was leading on the descent, although the results show that she was just beaten by a boy at the finish.
I think you have to be careful because fell running is a tad niche and fields are small.

At BBH when we were 3 times junior fell winners, we had a young lady who won the U11 and then U13 Cross Challenge at Liverpool 4 years running as well as the overall Cross Challenge series on at least one occasion.
She was a multiple FRA Junior Champion and went on to win England Junior vests.

She never beat a male junior in such races. Occasionally at a local fun run she might. Between age 10 and 14 she was among the top 10 female endurance athletes at 1200m up to 5K.
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Young Bleu might be in the top 20 nationally in her age group, and the young man who pipped her maybe not be inside the top 100.