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Countdown: Channel 4 show crowns Fiona Wood first female winner in 26 years

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Fiona Wood , from Kinross , Scotland , is the first female winner since 1998 .

She is the sixth woman to be named champion of the long-running numbers and words game show.

The first ever series of Countdown was won by Joyce Cansfield in 1982 .

Since then, four more women have won the series - Hilary Hopper, Liz Barber , Verity Joubert and Kate Ogilvie .

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