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The first was in 2006 when she came 17th at the European Championships and the second was three years later when she finished 14th at the World Championships.
The first was in 2006 when she came 17th at the European Championships and the second was three years later when she finished 14th at the World Championships.
She has competed in four major international championships. During 2009 she was ranked 2nd best in the country and 9th best of all time. 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.
In September 2013 she announced her retirement from heptathlon, although she could compete in other events.
However, 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. Hazel was born in Southwark, London and enjoyed sports as a child.
Encouraged by her father she began training at age 10 at the local athletics club She was educated at Neale-Wade Community College in Cambridgeshire and graduated with a Bachelor in French from the University of Birmingham.
While at university she joined the renowned Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club.
Hazel is an ambassador for the British Heart Foundation.
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.