Adam Campbell

About

Adam Campbell is a Canadian mountain runner, Arc'teryx athlete, and environmental and business lawyer who has become one of trail running's most quietly influential figures — as much for what he has survived as for what he has achieved on the results board. Raised on the beaches of Lagos, Nigeria, by Canadian parents, he moved to Canada at 17 for boarding school, competed as a professional triathlete for six years and narrowly missed the Olympics, then discovered trail running in 2007. He rapidly ascended to the international level, placing 2nd at the 2014 Hardrock 100, 3rd in 2015, and earning podiums at UTMB, Ultra Trail Mount Fuji, and the Squamish 50. In August 2016, while traversing Rogers Pass in British Columbia, he fell approximately 80 metres down a cliff face, breaking four vertebrae, crushing his iliac crest, and sustaining deep lacerations to the bone. Told recovery would take years, he returned to start and finish the 2017 Hardrock 100. In 2020 he suffered further grief when his wife died in a backcountry skiing accident. A co-owner of Canada's largest trail running series and manager of the Arc'teryx mountain running team, Campbell has since evolved from competition toward personal mountain exploration — seeking meaning not on the results board but in the lines he draws through the peaks of the Canadian Rockies.

Notable Wins

• — 2nd Hardrock 100 2014
• — 3rd Hardrock 100 2015
• — Squamish 50k 2014

Race History