Mhairi Maclennan
Mhairi Carmen Maclennan (born 26 March 1995) is a British long distance runner.[3] She later waived the right to anonymity to expose the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her coach in Edinburgh, John Lees, in an investigation by The Daily Telegraph.[5] In January 2022, she won the Scottish Inter District cross country championships at Irvine.[11] In December 2024, she was named as a competitor for Great Britain at the 2025 European Road Running Championships held in April 2025 in Leuven, Belgium.[13] In February 2021, she along with pole vaulter Anna Gordon and middle-distance runner Kate Seary, wrote an open letter to UK Athletics urging for lifetime bans to be imposed on coaches found guilty of sexual or physical misconduct.