Tamsyn Manou
Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis (married Tamsyn Manou Carolyn, born July 20, 1978 in Melbourne) is an Australian middle distance runner. Your specialist discipline is the 800 -meter run, but it starts because of their sprint strength especially in relay races and more than 400 meters.
Career
At the Junior World Championships in 1994, she finished sixth in the 400m. Two years later she won the 4 x 400 - meter relay bronze at the Junior World Championships after she had resigned over 400 meters in the semifinals.
With the transition to the adult area, Lewis moved to the 800 - meter track, but continued to perform in the season. At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, it was about 800 meters Sixth in 2:01,71 minutes. The Australian relay in the cast Susan Andrews, Tamsyn Lewis, Lee Naylor and Tania Van Heer won in 3:27,28 minutes. In 1999, she won at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi with the Australian relay in the cast Andrews, van Army, Lewis and Cathy Freeman in 3:26,87 minutes syllable behind the Russians. At the World Athletics Championships in Seville Lewis retired in the flow.
The 2000 Olympic Games were held in Sydney, and Cathy Freeman won gold in the 400 - meter course, while Lewis came over only 800 meters to the semifinals. The Australian relay with Nova Peris - Kneebone, Lewis, Melinda Gainsford -Taylor and Freeman reached in 3:23,81 minutes in fifth goal.
2001 Lewis reached at the World Championships in Edmonton the semifinals over 800 m. The following year she was. During the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester Fifth in 1:59,73 minutes The Australian relay in the cast Lauren Hewitt, Freeman, Lewis and Jana Pittman won in 3:25,63 minutes. After a semi-final at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis and a lead -off in Athens in 2004, each about 800 m, Lewis launched two years at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in her hometown of Melbourne over 400 meters and reached the semi-finals. In the season they won the third gold medal in series, this time in the occupation of Jana Pittman, Caitlin Willis, Tamsyn Lewis and Rosemary Hayward. The relay came in 3:28,66 minutes while in second behind the Englishwomen to the finish, but were disqualified for breaking a rule.
In 2007, she retired at the World Championships in Osaka from about 800 m in the flow. Nine years after its relay silver medal from Maebashi Lewis in 2008 went to at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia. In a rather slow race, the favorites of Tetjana Petljuk from Ukraine and Maria de Lurdes Mutola of Mozambique tried to ensure that the race course, should the Spaniard Mayte Martinez strong spurt take all possibilities. Lewis, who had qualified with Australian indoor record of 2:01,85 minutes for the final, took the opportunity to distinguish themselves from the field. The competitors they brought not quite a sprint finish with her, in 2:02,57 minutes they won the title before Petljuk, Mutola and Martinez. For the Beijing Olympics, she qualified in two disciplines: About 400 m she left in the run, about 800 m, she reached the semi-finals.
Lewis is 1.73 m, weighs 60 kg and starts for the Sandringham AC. She is the daughter of Greg Lewis, who won the Australian 4x100 - meter relay at the British Commonwealth Games in 1974 in 1974, and the seven-time Australian high jump champion Carolyn Wright.
Tamsyn Lewis is married to Australian Cricket Player Graham Manou.
Australian Championships
- 400 m: 2005, 2007, 2008
- 800 m: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008