Louise Hazel

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Louise Hazel
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Hazel in 2012
Personal information
Birth nameLouise Victoria Hazel
NationalityFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Born (1985-10-06) 6 October 1985 (age 38)
Southwark, London, England
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb) [1]
Website LouiseHazel.com
Sport
CountryFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)
Flag of England.svg  England  (ENG)
Sport Athletics
Event Heptathlon
Club Birchfield Harriers
Achievements and titles
Personal best6156 (2010)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Delhi Heptathlon

Louise Victoria Hazel (born 6 October 1985) is an English track and field athlete from March, Cambridgeshire, [2] who specialises in the multi-event heptathlon. [3] She has competed in four major international championships. The first was in 2006 when she came 17th at the European Championships and the second was three years later when she finished 14th at the World Championships. [1] During 2009 she was ranked 2nd best in the country and 9th best of all time. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games she won the gold medal for the England team, with a personal best of 6156 points. At the 2011 Mehrkampf-Meeting Ratingen she scored 6166 points but this included wind-assisted performances and she also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [4] In July 2012 she appeared with Tasha Danvers, Mark Foster and Derek Redmond on the Channel 4 programme Come Dine with Me prior to her Olympics competition, and won the show. [5]

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In September 2013 she announced her retirement from heptathlon, although she could compete in other events. [6] In January 2014 she announced that she would come out of retirement to defend her title at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after Jessica Ennis-Hill announced that she would miss the Games due to pregnancy. [7] However, in June 2014 Hazel stated that she had decided to abandon her comeback due to her training schedule being disrupted by a flare-up of ulcerative colitis. [8]

Early life

Hazel was born in Southwark, London and enjoyed sports as a child. Encouraged by her father she began training at age 10 at the local athletics club. [9] She was educated at Neale-Wade Community College [10] in Cambridgeshire and graduated with a BA in French from the University of Birmingham. [11] While at university she joined the renowned Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club.

Advocacy

Hazel is an ambassador for the British Heart Foundation. [12]

Competition record

2010 Commonwealth Games

EventResultPositionPointsOverallNotes
100 metre hurdles 13.25 secs2nd1,0872nd(1,087) Personal Best
High Jump 1.69 m7th8424th(1,929)
Shot put 12.54 m5th6975th(2,626)
200 metres 24.10 secs2nd9713rd(3,597) Personal Best
Long jump 6.44 m1st9881st(4,585) Personal Best. Lead by 74 points
Javelin 44.42 m1st7521st(5,337) Personal Best. Lead by 126 points
800 metres 2:20.334th8191st(6,156) Won by 56 points
Heptathlon 6,1561stCommonwealth Games Gold Medalist.

2011 World Championships

EventResultPositionPointsOverallNotes
100 metre hurdles 13.24 secs5th1,0895th(1,089) Personal Best
High Jump 1.74 m20th90316th(1,992) Personal Best
Shot put 12.36 m22nd68518th(2,677)
200 metres 24.25 secs7th95716th(3,634)
Long jump 6.25 m10th92713th(4,561)
Javelin 41.75 m17th70116th(5,262)
800 metres 2:15.4416th88715th(6,149)
Heptathlon 6,14915th

2012 Olympic Games

EventResultPositionPointsOverallNotes
100 metre hurdles 13.48 secs=15th1,053=15th(1,053)
High jump 1.59 m38th72437th(1,777)
Shot put 12.81 m29th71537th(2,492)
200 metres 24.48 secs20th93534th(3,427)
Long jump 5.77 m29th78031st(4,207)
Javelin 47.38 m11th80930th(5,016) Personal Best
800 metres 2:18:7823rd84027th(5,856)
Heptathlon 5,85627th

Other ventures

In 2015 Hazel competed on The Chase and a celebrity Christmas special edition of Ninja Warrior UK . [13]

In 2017 Hazel appeared on a charity edition of MTVs The Challenge , titled The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros . She competed to raise money for Save the Children. [14] In 2018, she returned to the MTVs The Challenge spinoff, titled The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars .

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