Denise Lewis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Denise Lewis

British athlete

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1972

Place of Birth: West Bromwich, England, United Kingdom

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Denise Lewis, (born 27 August 1972) is a British female sports presenter 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 6831 points, set at the Décastar meeting in 2000.
This is a former British record and ranks her third on the all-time British lists behind Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill.Lewis was honoured as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours.
Since retiring from athletics, she has undertaken various television and media work and is now a regular athletics pundit for BBC Television, including during London 2012 and Rio 2016.