Louise Victoria Hazel (born 6 October 1985) is an English track and field athlete from March, Cambridgeshire,[2] who specialises in the multi-event heptathlon.
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.
[4] In July 2012 she appeared with Tasha Danvers, Mark Foster and Derek Redmond on the Channel 4 programme Come Dine with Me prior to her Olympics competition, and won the show.
[6] 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,[7] but 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.
[9] She was educated at Neale-Wade Community College[10] in Cambridgeshire and graduated with a BA in French from the University of Birmingham.