British television personality and retired athlete
Dame
Denise Lewis
DBE
Personal information
Born
(1972-08-27) 27 August 1972 (age 51) West Bromwich, England
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Sport
Country
Great Britain
Sport
Athletics
Event
Heptathlon
Club
Birchfield Harriers
Coached by
Charles van Commenee, Darrell Bunn
Retired
2005
Achievements and titles
Personal best
6,831 pts (2000)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney
Heptathlon
1996 Atlanta
Heptathlon
World Championships
1997 Athens
Heptathlon
1999 Sevilla
Heptathlon
European Championships
1998 Budapest
Heptathlon
European Cup
1995 Helmond
Heptathlon
2003 Brixen
Heptathlon
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
1994 Victoria
Heptathlon
1998 Kuala Lumpur
Heptathlon
Dame Denise Rosemarie LewisDBE (born 27 August 1972) is a British sports presenter, sports administrator and former track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon.
She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was twice Commonwealth Games champion, was the 1998 European Champion, and won World Championships silver medals in 1997 and 1999. She was the first European to win the Olympic heptathlon, though Europeans, including Briton Mary Peters, had won the Olympic pentathlon precursor event.
Her personal best score for the heptathlon is 6,831 points, set at the Décastar meeting in 2000. That is a former British record and ranks her third on the all-time British lists behind double World, double Commonwealth Games champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Olympic, three-time World and European champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.[1][2] Along with these two and pentathletes Mary Rand and Dame Mary Peters, Lewis is recognised as one of Britain's greatest female multi-eventers, and the first in the line of British global champions in heptathlon.
Since retiring from athletics, she has undertaken work on television and other media work, and is now a regular athletics pundit for BBC Television, including during the Olympic Games in London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. In addition to her media work, Lewis is president of Commonwealth Games England which is the official Commonwealth Games Association for England at the Commonwealth Games and, since 2023, president of UK Athletics, the governing body for the sport of Athletics in the United Kingdom.[3]
^HepW Women Overall All Time to 4857 Archived 20 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine. Power of 10. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
^Senior Outdoor All time Archived 21 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
^"Dame Denise Lewis elected UK Athletics president". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
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