Louise Hazel


Louise Victoria Hazel is an English track and field athlete from March, Cambridgeshire, who specialises in the multi-event heptathlon. 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. 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. In July 2012 she appeared with Tasha Danvers, Mark Foster, Derek Redmond on the Channel Four programme Come Dine With Me prior to her Olympics competition, and won the show.
In September 2013 she announced her retirement from heptathlon, although she could compete in other events. 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. 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.

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. She was educated at Neale-Wade Community College in Cambridgeshire and graduated with a BA in French from the University of Birmingham. While at university she joined the renowned Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club.

Advocacy

Hazel is an ambassador for the British Heart Foundation.

Competition record

2010 Commonwealth Games

EventResultPositionPointsOverallNotes
100 metre hurdles13.25 secs2nd1,0872nd Personal Best
High Jump1.69 m7th8424th
Shot put12.54 m5th6975th
200 metres24.10 secs2nd9713rd Personal Best
Long jump6.44 m1st9881st Personal Best. Lead by 74 points
Javelin44.42 m1st7521st Personal Best. Lead by 126 points
800 metres2:20.334th8191st Won by 56 points
Heptathlon6,1561stCommonwealth Games Gold Medalist.

2011 World Championships

EventResultPositionPointsOverallNotes
100 metre hurdles13.24 secs5th1,0895th Personal Best
High Jump1.74 m20th90316th Personal Best
Shot put12.36 m22nd68518th
200 metres24.25 secs7th95716th
Long jump6.25 m10th92713th
Javelin41.75 m17th70116th
800 metres2:15.4416th88715th
Heptathlon6,14915th

2012 Olympic Games

EventResultPositionPointsOverallNotes
100 metre hurdles13.48 secs=15th1,053=15th
High jump1.59 m38th72437th
Shot put12.81 m29th71537th
200 metres24.48 secs20th93534th
Long jump5.77 m29th78031st
Javelin47.38 m11th80930th Personal Best
800 metres2:18:7823rd84027th
Heptathlon5,85627th

Other Ventures

In 2015 Hazel competed on The Chase and a celebrity Christmas special edition of Ninja Warrior UK.
In 2017 Hazel appeared on a charity edition of MTVs The Challenge, titled '. She competed to raise money for Save the Children. In 2018, she returned to the MTVs The Challenge spinoff, titled '.