Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | 8 January 2005 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprint |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 100m: 11.10 (Canberra, 2024) 200m: 23.02 (Brisbane, 2023) |
Torrie Lewis (born 8 January 2005) is an Australian track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. In 2023 she became Australian national champion over 100m and 200m. She set a new Australian 100m national record of 11.10 seconds in January 2024.[1]
Lewis was born in England to a father of Jamaican/Indian descent and a mother of Scottish descent.[2] At the age of six she moved to Brisbane with her mother where she was raised and attended St Peters Lutheran College.[3]
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.[4][5]
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.[6] Lewis's 11.10 places her 25th on the world top all-time under-20 athlete list.[7]
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.[8]
Lewis has celiac disease.[9]