Autor/-in: Lewis Denise

Denise Lewis DBE is a retired Team GB track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Lewis is considered to be one of the 'golden girls' of British athletics having been inducted into the UK Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011 and twice been runner-up in BBC's Sports Personality of the Year Awards in 1998 and 2000. Since retiring from athletics, she has become one of the nation's most popular broadcasters and sports pundits, receiving her damehood in 2023.