DENISE LEWIS: HEPTATHLETE

What is it about the UK that makes us produce such brilliant multi-event athletics? Denise Lewis was the first European to win the Olympic heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney games, setting a British record number of points which was ubsequently broken by Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Since retiring, Lewis has been a regular athletics pundit for the BBC. In the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, she was listed as one of the most influential Black Britons.

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