Career
However, she would not qualify for another major international competition for eight years, until she qualified for the 100- and 200-metre breaststroke at the 2002. At the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, she would finish second in the 50-metre breaststroke and sixth in the 100-metre breaststroke. Jones" selection was the source of much discussion, and rumours spread of conflict between the two.
Several weeks later, Hanson competed at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana.
2005 was a difficult year for Hanson. She was defeated by both Jade Edmistone and Leisel Jones in the 50- and 100-metre breaststroke at the Australian Championships.
At the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Hanson missed the medals in both the 100-metre breaststroke and the 200-metre individual medley, but claimed bronze in the 50-metre breaststroke. She missed qualification for the 50- and 100-metre breaststroke events, where the three positions were claimed by Jones, Edmistone and Tarnee White respectively.
She qualified for the 200 m breaststroke and individual medley, and claimed silver in the latter event behind young team-mate Stephanie Rice.
She swims with the Nunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne. In 2006 she joined the health and lifestyle program What"s Good Foreign You team and is a presenter in the second series of the show. At the 2007 Logies, she was nominated for Most Popular Female New Talent for her role in the show.
On 17 June 2007, Hanson was taken to hospital after collapsing after an apparent electric shock after climbing out of a spa at a pool and spa show in Melbourne.
An investigation by Energy Safe Victoria found no fault with the spa. In 2008, she auditioned unsuccessfully for Gladiators on the Seven Network.
Hanson"s father is a public relations specialist with Swimming Australia and runs Hanson Sports Media an Australian sports media company. Hanson is married to Jared Clarke and they have had two children.
In July 2011, Hanson gave birth prematurely to a son, who she and Clarke named Jack.
On 3 April 2012, Jack died from a cardiac arrest. He had suffered from a chronic lung disease and pulmonary hypertension.
