Lisa Curry Biography – Lisa Curry Wiki
Lisa Curry born Lisa Gaye Curry is an Australian former competition swimmer. She won 15 gold, seven silver, and eight bronze international swimming medals, and is the only Australian swimmer to have held Commonwealth and Australian records in every stroke except backstroke. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was the chair of the National Australia Day Council from 2000 to 2008.
Her swimming ability was noticed at a young age and by the age of 12 was one of the fastest swimmers of her age in the world. From 1977 to 1992, she represented Australia 16 times. She won 15 national long course open titles and competed in World Championships in 1978 and 1982. Curry had success in three Commonwealth Games – a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at Edmonton in 1978, three gold medals (100-meter butterfly, 200- and 400-meter individual medley), and a bronze (100-meter freestyle) at Brisbane in 1982, and four gold medals (100-meter butterfly, 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-metre freestyle relay, 4×100-metre medley relay) and one silver (100-meter freestyle) at Auckland in 1990. Curry also competed in the Olympic Games in Moscow (1980), Los Angeles (1984), and Barcelona (1992). After retiring from swimming, she competed in surf boat rowing competitions and outrigger canoe events, and her team won the World Championship Outrigger Canoe event in 1997.
On December 31, 1982, she was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire “in recognition of service to the sport of swimming”. She was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. At the 1994 Australia Day Honours, Curry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia “in recognition of service to the sport of swimming”. On July 14, 2000, Curry was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for “her significant contribution as a competitor in swimming”. On January 1, 2001, she was awarded the Centenary Medal for “service to Australian society through swimming and the National Australia Day Council”. At the 2008 Australia Day Honours, Curry was named as an Officer of the Order of Australia “for service to the community through encouraging national pride and identity, particularly through the leadership of the National Australia Day Council.” In 2009 she was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.
In 2011, she was featured as a celebrity contestant on the first season of Nine Network’s Australian reality series The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. Curry was fired in the 6th task. She appeared in advertising campaigns for cruise liner P&O Cruises Australia and Uncle Tobys. In January 2017, she was revealed as a celebrity contestant on the third season of Network Ten’s Australian reality series I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. On March 8, 2017, she was the 9th celebrity eliminated from the series after 41 days in the jungle coming in 6th place. She was the subject of the episode of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on June 9, 2020.
Curry and her former husband Grant Kenny co-own the Curry Kenny Aviation Group, which in 2009 owned approximately 60 aircraft. She has a partnership with Naturopath Jeff Butterworth in the company Happy Healthy YOU, featuring the products Happy Hormones, Happy Greens, and Happy Turmeric. Happy Healthy You was launched in Australia in 2015 and has grown into a resource for women dealing with hormonal conditions with over 65,000 women following Lisa’s advice and taking the health supplements.
Lisa Curry Age
She was born on May 15, 1962, in Brisbane, Australia.
Lisa Curry Husband
She was married to Grant Kenny, former ironman surf lifesaver and Olympic bronze medallist, in 1984. The couple separated in May 2009. They had three children together; Jaimi Lee, Morgan, and Jett. Daughter Jaimi Lee Kenny died on September 14, 2020, at age 33, following a long illness.
In 2008 she had a heart surgery operation to implant a defibrillator after being found to have an irregular heartbeat as a consequence of a viral infection. In October 2016, she announced her engagement to entertainer Mark Andrew Tabone. They married in May 2018.
Lisa Curry Children
She had three children, Jett Kenny, Morgan Kenny, and the late Jaimi Lee Kenny who died on September 14, 2020, at age 33, following a long illness.
Lisa Curry Parents
She is the daughter of Roy Curry and the late Pat Curry (Patricia Anne Curry who was born on April 15, 1935, and died on March 3, 2022. Her siblings are her brother Scott, and sister Melanie.
Lisa Curry Height
She stands at a listed height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 meters) tall and weighs up to 62 kilograms (137 lb).
Lisa Curry Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @lisacurry.
