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. In January 2024, she set a new Australian 100m national record of 11.10 seconds.

Early life

Lewis was born in

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, England to a father of Jamaican and Indian descent and a mother of Scottish descent. At the age of six she moved to Australia and was a promising gymnast in her early years in

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, before turning her full attention to the track. She later moved to

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where she attended St Peters Lutheran College.

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, she won the 100m and 200m sprint double at the Australian national athletics championships.

2024

On 27 January 2024, Lewis ran 11.10 (+1.6) in Canberra to become both (i) the Australian under-20 women's

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record holder, surpassing

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'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

record holder, passing Melissa Breen's previous mark of 11.11 set in 2014, also in Canberra. Lewis's 11.10 places her 25th on the world top all-time under-20 athlete list. 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. She did not defend her 100m national title to focus on the 200m ahead of the Olympics. Lewis made her Diamond League debut in the 200m at the first meet of 2024 in Xiamen, China, with a spectacular, unexpected win from lane 9 over Sha'carri Richardson and other outstanding athletes. She ran as part of the Australian 4x100m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in

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. Lewis represented Australia in the

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in Paris in the 200m, achieving a then PB of 22.89 in the heats and reaching the

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., and she also competed in the relay at the Games. She won silver in the 200 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in

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, Peru in August 2024, running a personal best 22.88 seconds. Lewis, along with Ebony Lane, Bree Masters, Kristie Edwards and Ella Connolly, was part of an Australian relay team that broke the Oceania and thus national records three times in 2024, starting with a time of 42.94 seconds at the Sydney Track Classic in March 2024; then 42.83 in early May in the heats of the 2024 World Relay Championships at the

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, Nassau,

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; then, finally, at the London Diamond Leagues Athletics Meet where they ran 42.48 seconds.

2025

Lewis opened her 2025 season on 29 January running 7.14s in the 60 metres final in the Belgrade Indoor Meeting to set a new Australian record for the event (indoor and outdoor). At her next indoor meet she ran 22.65 s to win her first short track 200m race, 0.01 s off Melinda Gainsford-Taylor's Australian and Oceanian area short track record (set when MGT won the Women's 200 metres at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships). She was selected for the 60 metres and 4x400 relay at the

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in March 2025. She only competed in the 60m, making the semi-final stage. She won the 100 metres title at the Australian Athletics Championships on 12 April 2025, running 11.24 seconds to beat teenager Leah O'Brien and Bree Rizzo on the line in a three-way photo finish.

Personal life

Lewis has

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Torrie Living people 2005 births Athletes from Nottingham Australian female sprinters English emigrants to Australia Australian people of Jamaican descent Australian sportspeople of Indian descent Australian people of Scottish descent English people of Jamaican descent English people of Indian descent English people of Scottish descent Athletes from Brisbane 21st-century Australian sportswomen Sportswomen from Queensland People educated at St Peters Lutheran College Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Australia