.jpg) Hazel in 2012 | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Louise Victoria Hazel | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 October 1985 Southwark, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Website | LouiseHazel.com | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain (GBR) England (ENG) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Birchfield Harriers | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 6156 (2010) | ||||||||||||||
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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]
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] but 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]
- ^ a b "IAAF Profile".
- ^ Commonwealth Games England Athletics Team Archived 31 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Power of 10 Profile".
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2010: Hazel takes heptathlon gold". BBC Sport. BBC. 9 October 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ Come Dine with Me Series 26, Episode 23: Olympic Special
- ^ "Louise Hazel: Commonwealth champion quits heptathlon". BBC. 2 September 2013.
- ^ "Louise Hazel: Commonwealth champion comes out of retirement". BBC. 29 January 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014: Louise Hazel will not defend heptathlon title". BBC. 5 June 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.