Hayley Lewis
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Full name | Hayley Jane Lewis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | 2 March 1974|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Commercial Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hayley Jane Lewis, OAM[1] (born 2 March 1974), is an Australian former competitive swimmer best known for winning five gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a 15-year-old.
Lewis is a former host of The Biggest Loser.
Early life
[edit]Lewis was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She attended Brisbane State High School, graduating in 1991. During her final year, she captained the Girls Swimming Team.[2]
Sporting career
[edit]In 1990, at only 15, Hayley became a household name winning five gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. Lewis's 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medals were in the 200-metre freestyle, the 400-metre freestyle, the 200-metre butterfly, 400-metre individual medley and the 4×200-metre freestyle relay. She also won a bronze in the 200-metre individual medley.[3]
At the 1991 World Championships in Perth she won gold in the 200-metre freestyle, silver in the 400-metre freestyle, silver in the 400-metre individual medley, and bronze in the 200-metre butterfly.
For the rest of her career, Lewis focused on the 800-metre freestyle, in which her best Olympic result was a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1994 Rome World Championships. She also won a bronze medal in the 400-metre freestyle in Barcelona. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, Lewis won a bronze medal in the 5-kilometre open water competition. She had planned to attempt to qualify for the 10-kilometre open water event at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but this event was removed from the competition. She competed at three Olympics.
Post swimming career
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Lewis is a previous host of the Australian version of The Biggest Loser between 2010 and 2014. She started the first swimming centre based inside a major shopping centre within Australia in 2002 at Westfield Carindale in Brisbane.[citation needed]
In September 2010, Westfield's redevelopment plans saw Lewis's pool demolished. She now owns a gift and homewares store in Brisbane, Coming Up Roses.[citation needed]
In April 2011, Random House published Hayley's first business book, Dream Believe Create. She married her childhood sweetheart, Greg Taylor, in 1997 and they have two sons, Jacob and Kai.[4] The younger son, Kai Taylor, won a silver in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay in the 2024 Summer Olympics.[5]
She is also a regular contributor to entertainment and lifestyle website Live4.[6]
Honours
[edit]Lewis was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1997.[7] She received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2003.[1][8]
See also
[edit]- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lewis, Hayley Jane OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ "Legends of State High". 17 March 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ "Hayley Lewis Results | Commonwealth Games Australia". 19 June 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ "An Aussie swimming dynasty – Hayley Lewis and son Kai Taylor". World Aquatics. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Final Results". Olympics. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Hayley Lewis - Live4". Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ^ "Hayley Lewis". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ "Lewis, Hayley Jane". It's an Honour. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
External links
[edit]- ABC Online News: Athletes - Hayley Lewis
- Australian Swimming | News Article
- Australian Associated Press, Hayley Lewis called to murder trial, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2003
- ABC Online News - Athletes - Hayley Lewis
- Hayley Lewis at IMDb
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- Australian female butterfly swimmers
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Australian Swimmers of the Year
- Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Australian female medley swimmers
- Female long-distance swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming
- People educated at Brisbane State High School
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
- Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
- Swimmers from Brisbane
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games