Hayley Lewis

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Medal record
Competitor for Australia
Women's Swimming
Olympic Games
Bronze	1992 Barcelona	400m Freestyle
Silver	1992 Barcelona	800m Freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold	1991 Perth	200m Freestyle
Silver	1991 Perth	400m Freestyle
Silver	1991 Perth	400m Medley
Bronze	1991 Perth	200m Butterfly
Silver	1994 Rome	800m Freestyle
Bronze	2001 Fukuoka	5km Open Water
Commonwealth Games
Gold	1990 Auckland	200m Freestyle
Gold	1990 Auckland	400m Freestyle
Gold	1990 Auckland	200m Butterfly
Bronze	1990 Auckland	200m Medley
Gold	1990 Auckland	400m Medley

Hayley Jane Lewis (following her marriage, Hayley Taylor) (March 2, 1974 in Brisbane, Queensland) was an Australian swimmer best known for winning five gold medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games as a 16 year old.

Lewis's 1990 Commonwealth Games gold medals were in: the 200m freestyle, the 400m freestyle, the 200m butterfly and the 400m individual medley. She also won bronze in the 200m individual medley.

At the 1991 World Championships in Perth she won gold in the 200m freestyle, silver in the 400m freestyle, silver in the 400m individual medley, and bronze in the 200m butterfly.

For most of the rest of her career, Lewis focused on the 800m freestyle, in which her best Olympic result was a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, when she also won a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle. At the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, Lewis won a bronze medal in the 5km Open Water competition. She had planned to attempt to qualify for the 10km open water event at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but this event was removed from the competition. Lewis ended up announcing her retirement on 22 November 2001, she moved on to run the Hayley Lewis Swim School.

In October 2003 Lewis briefly returned to the news after being called to testify at a murder trial. Lewis had overheard the murder of a man in a house neighbouring hers on March 1, 2000.

Lewis is married to Greg Taylor, and they have a son Jacob Joe Taylor.