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Film & TV
West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, UK
Known for
- Game On: The Unstoppable Rise of Women's Sport — Self2023
- Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony — Self2022
- Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line Up — Self - Guest2021
- Michael McIntyre's The Wheel — Self - Expert2020
- All Star Musicals — Self - Performer2017
- Richard Osman's House of Games — Self - Contestant2017
- Secret Britain — Herself - Presenter2010
- Let's Dance for Comic Relief — Self2009
- Angela and Friends2009
- Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour — Self2008
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1972-08-27 ) 27 August 1972 (age 53) , West Bromwich , Staffordshire , England , United Kingdom
- Height
- 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
- Country
- Great Britain
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Heptathlon
- Club
- Birchfield Harriers , Wolverhampton & Bilston AC
- Coached by
- Charles van Commenee , Darrell Bunn
- Personal best
- 6,831 pts (2000)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Denise
- Family name
- Lewis
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- West Bromwich
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Denise Lewis in 2011 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.73
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- Commons category
- Denise Lewis
- date of birth
- 1972-08-27
- sports discipline competed in
- heptathlon
- name in native language
- Denise Lewis
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Denise Rosemarie Lewis DBE (born 27 August 1972) is a British sports administrator and former sports presenter and athletics 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.
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