The Ron Hill Connection

Dr Ron Hill MBE offers a unique combination, making him the ideal athlete and technical specialist to head our testing panel.

The former Commonwealth gold medallist has a remarkable running career which is well documented. However, his achievements in the field of technical fabric innovations are equally as compelling.

Here is a brief summary by Ron of his running career dating back nearly half a century and his close association with technical fabrics going back more than 30 years.

• Triple Olympian, European & Commonwealth marathon champion.

• Ph.D. in textile chemistry.

• Run every day for 40 years, totalling more than 145,000 miles (233,000 kilometres) – an undisputed world record.

•  Worked in textiles all my working life.

• Raced in 88 different countries across the globe in a bid to cover 100 countries before the age of 70.

• Worked with Cloverbrook for more than 15 years, founding the “Clovertec” division in 1992, as product director.

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