Denise Lewis
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27 August 1972 West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 10 st 1 lb (64 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United Kingdom
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| Sport | Heptathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Birchfield Harriers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Charles van Commenee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Denise Lewis OBE (born 27 August 1972, in West Bromwich) is a retired English track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Lewis was honoured as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours. Since retiring from athletics, she has undertaken various television and media work and is now a regular athletics pundit for BBC Television, including during London 2012 and Rio 2016.
She was the javelin gold medallist at the 1994 Commonwealth Youth Games in Vancouver.
The first day of the 2000 Summer Olympics heptathlon was 23 September. In the first event, Lewis recorded 13.23 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles to be in second place behind the world champion, Eunice Barber, who had finished in 12.97 seconds. Ghada Shouaa, the 1996 Olympic champion, pulled-out after only 20 metres of her heat.
After a poor performance in the high jump of only 1.75 m, some way off her personal best, Lewis was in eighth place, 152 points behind Barber who had increased her lead. In the third event, the shot put, Lewis recorded a distance of 15.55 m, placing her second. 30 points behind Natallia Sazanovich and 45 points ahead of former world champion Sabine Braun. Barber's distance of 11.27 m put her in eighth place.
In the final event of the day, the 200 metres, Lewis recorded a time of 24.34 sec. Sabine Braun's time placed her in sixth position. A strong run by Natalya Roshchupkina moved her from sixth position to second, pushing Lewis into third place.
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