Australian athlete (born 2005)
Torrie Lewis
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| Nationality | Australian |
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| Born | (2005-01-08) 8 January 2005 (age 19)
Nottingham |
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| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) |
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| Sport | Athletics |
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| Event | Sprint |
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| Personal best(s) | 100m: 11.10 (Canberra, 2024)
200m: 22.88 (Lima, 2024) |
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Torrie Lewis (born 8 January 2005) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. She has won Australian national titles over 100m and 200m. Prior to going to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, she set a new Australian 100m national record of 11.10 seconds in January 2024.[1]
Early life
Lewis was born in Nottingham,[2] England to a father of Jamaican and Indian descent and a mother of Scottish descent.[3] At the age of six she moved to Australia and was a promising gymnast in her early years in Newcastle, New South Wales, before turning her full attention to the track.[2] She later moved to Brisbane, Queensland where she attended St Peters Lutheran College.[4]
Career
Lewis ran 11.33 seconds for the 100m aged 16 years-old which placed her as the third fastest U18 women in the world, behind only Tina Clayton of Jamaica and American Shawnti Jackson.
In April 2023, aged 18 years-old, she completed the sprint double to be crowned the Australian national champion over 100m and 200m.[5][6]
On 27 January 2024, Lewis ran 11.10 (+1.6) in Canberra to become both (i) the Australian under-20 women's 100 metres record holder, surpassing Raelene Boyle's longstanding under-20 record of 11.20 set at altitude at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, and (ii) the Australian Women's open 100 metres record holder, passing Melissa Breen's previous mark of 11.11 set in 2014, also in Canberra.[7] Lewis's 11.10 places her 25th on the world top all-time under-20 athlete list.[8]
Lewis, Ebony Lane, Bree Masters, and Ella Connolly were part of an Australian 4x100m relay team that set a national record of 42.94 seconds at the Sydney Track Classic in March 2024.[9]
In April 2024, Lewis lowered her personal best for the 200 metres to 22.94 seconds in a heat at the Australian National championships in Adelaide where she went on to win gold ahead of Mia Gross.[10][11] She did not defend her 100m national title to focus on the 200m ahead of the Olympics.[12] Lewis made her Diamond League debut in the 200m at the first meet of 2024 in Xiamen, China, with an unexpected win from lane 9 over Sha'carri Richardson and other outstanding athletes.[13] She ran as part of the Australian 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[14]
In Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics, she elected to run the 200m, achieving a PB of 22.89 in the heats, reaching the semi-finals.[15] She won silver in the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024, running a personal best 22.88 seconds.[16]
Personal life
Lewis has celiac disease.[17]
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