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{{short description|New Zealand triathlete}}
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| name = Andrea Hansen
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM|size=100%}}
| image = Andrea Hewitt Nizza2012a.JPG
| caption = Andrea Hewitt, gold medalist in Nice 2012
| country = New Zealand
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| birth_name= Andrea Hewitt
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1982|4|4}}
| birth_place = [[Christchurch]], New Zealand
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| weight = {{convert|51|kg|lb}}
| turnedpro = 2005
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| show-medals = yes
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{{MedalCountry|{{NZL}}}}
{{MedalSport|Women's [[triathlon]]}}
{{MedalComp|[[ITU Triathlon World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2005 ITU Triathlon World Championships|2005 Gamagori]]|U23}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2011 ITU Triathlon World Championships|2011]]|Elite}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2015 ITU World Triathlon Series|2015]]|Elite}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2014 ITU World Triathlon Series|2014]]|Elite}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2009 ITU Triathlon World Championships|2009]]|Elite}}
{{MedalBronze|[[ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships|2014 Weihai]]|Long Distance}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2011 ITU Sprint Distance Triathlon World Championships|2011 Lausanne]]|Sprint}}
{{MedalComp|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Triathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Melbourne]]|Individual}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Triathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games|2018 Gold Coast]]|[[Triathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Mixed relay|Mixed relay]]}}
{{MedalComp|OTU Triathlon Oceania Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2010 Wellington|Elite}}
{{MedalComp|ASTC Triathlon Asian Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2005 Singapore|Elite}}
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[[File:Andrea Hewitt Nizza2012b.JPG|thumb|Andrea Hewitt, winner of the Grand Prix triathlon in Nice, 2012.]]
[[File:Andrea Hewitt Nizza2012c.jpg|thumb|Andrea Hewitt, winner of the Grand Prix triathlon in Nice, 2012.]]

'''Andrea Hansen''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (née '''Hewitt''', born 4 April 1982) is a New Zealand triathlete who placed third at the [[2009 ITU Triathlon World Championships]] and competed at the [[2000 Summer Olympics|2008]], [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]], and [[2016 Summer Olympics]].

== Biography ==
Hewitt was born in [[Christchurch]], New Zealand, in 1982. She lived together with the French triathlete [[Laurent Vidal]], who was also her coach and fiancé, in Sète on the Mediterranean from May to December, and for the rest of the year she returned to Christchurch until his death on 10 November 2015 from a heart attack.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Fiancé and coach of NZ athlete Andrea Hewitt dies|url = http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11543179&ref=NZH_FBpage|newspaper = New Zealand Herald|date = 10 November 2015|access-date = 10 November 2015|issn = 1170-0777|language = en-NZ}}</ref> At the [[University of Canterbury]] in New Zealand she completed a Bachelor in Commerce and Economics. Andrea Hewitt's sisters are successful sportswomen as well. Tina, her elder sister, won the New Zealand Championship in Surf Life Saving, and Sara is part of the water polo National Team.

===Athletic career===
Hewitt's early athletic career was as a competitive pool swimmer and a surf life saver.<ref name="2016 Stuff bio">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Tony |title=Andrea Hewitt looks forward to Rio Olympics after death of fiance and coach |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/78050009/andrea-hewitt-confidently-looks-forward-to-rio-olympics |access-date=19 March 2016 |work=[[Stuff.co.nz]] |date=18 March 2016}}</ref> She was a well known swimmer when at the beginning of 2005, at the age of 22, she decided to convert to triathlon and straight away won the bronze medal at the New Zealand U23 Championships and was admitted to the National Team. In autumn 2005, after having been into triathlon for not more than half a year, Hewitt won the U23 World Championships in Gamagori. In 2006, she took part in the first World Cup of her life, placing third in Mooloolaba (Elite category). In 2007, she won her first World Cup race in Kitzbühel and began taking part in the prestigious French [[Grand Prix de Triathlon|Club Championship Series ''Lyonnaise des Eaux'']]. In 2008, she placed 8th in the Olympic Games.

In 2009, Hewitt took part in seven out of eight competitions of the Dextro Energy World Championship Series and won three medals: gold in Madrid, silver in Yokohama and bronze in Kitzbühel, in the overall ranking she placed third.

At the beginning of the 2010 season Hewitt won the Oceania Championships and then achieved six top ten positions at the Elite Cup in Hy-Vee and at five of the six World Championship Series triathlons. In the ''World Championship Rankings 2010,'' Hewitt was number sixth. In France, Hewitt again represented Beauvais in the [[Grand Prix de Triathlon|''Lyonnaise des Eaux'' circuit]] and again played the decisive role. At Dunkirk and at Tourangeaux she won the gold medal, at the Grand Final of the ''Lyonnaise'' circuit in La Baule (Triathlon Audencia) she won silver. Hewitt did not take part at Beauvais and Paris, where [[Hollie Avil]] was the best triathlete of her club. Thus in 2010 again ''Beauvais'' owes its first place in the overall ranking of the French [[Grand Prix de Triathlon|Club Championship]] to Andrea Hewitt and [[Hollie Avil]], [[Anja Dittmer]], and [[Vicky Holland]]. At La Baule there were no French triathletes among the three {{lang|fr|triathlètes classants l'équipe}} of Beauvais at all.

From 2007 to 2010, Hewitt took part in 15 French [[Grand Prix de Triathlon|Club Championship]] triathlons and won 7 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 3 bronze medals,<ref>Cf. http://beauvais-triathlon.onlinetri.com/index.php?page_id=3050&news_id=24084. Retrieved 19 September 2010.</ref> so she may be considered the dominant figure in French triathlon as well.

In 2011, Hewitt won the [[2011 ITU Triathlon World Championships|World Championship Series]] Grand Final in Beijing, China and placed second in the overall championship rankings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.triathlon.org/files/events/rankings/itu_wcs_rankings_elite-women-2011.pdf|title=2011 ITU Women's World Championship Series Rankings|access-date=5 December 2011|publisher=International Triathlon Union}}</ref>

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hewitt finished 6th.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/olympic-results/london-2012/triathlon/individual-w|title=Individual women results – Triathlon – London 2012 Olympics|access-date=20 March 2016}}</ref> At the 2014 Commonwealth Games Hewitt finished in 4th place in the women's individual event, and was part of the New Zealand team that finished 5th in the mixed relay event.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://g2014results.thecgf.com/PEVU/PEVU_TRW001101.html|title = 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's Triathlon|date = 8 August 2014|access-date = 16 March 2015|website = g2014results.thecgf.com }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://g2014results.thecgf.com/PEVU/PEVU_TRX400101.html|title = Commonwealth Games 2014 – Triathlon – Mixed Relay|date = 8 August 2014|access-date = 16 March 2015|website = g2014results.thecgf.com|archive-date = 24 October 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211024160919/http://g2014results.thecgf.com/PEVU/PEVU_TRX400101.html|url-status = dead}}</ref> She represented—alongside [[Nicky Samuels]]—[[New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics]] in [[Triathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's|triathlon]] and came seventh.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rio Olympics 2016: Kiwis finish in top 15 at triathlon |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11698113 |access-date=21 August 2016 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=21 August 2016}}</ref>

==ITU results==
In the seven years from 2005 to 2011, Hewitt took part in 58 individual ITU competitions and achieved 48 top ten positions, among which 21 medals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.triathlon.org/zpg/zresults-ath-dtl.php?id=MTU1OQ==|title=Results for Andrea Hewitt|access-date=5 December 2011|publisher=International Triathlon Union|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008222522/http://archive.triathlon.org/zpg/zresults-ath-dtl.php?id=MTU1OQ==|archive-date=8 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Unless indicated otherwise, the events are triathlons (Olympic Distance) and belong to the ''Elite'' category.

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable"
! Date !! Competition !! Place !! Rank
|-
| 2005-07-03	|| Asian Championship || Singapore || 3
|-
| 2005-09-10	|| U23 World Championships || Gamagori || 1	
|-
| 2005-11-13	|| World Cup || New Plymouth || 21
|-
| 2005-12-03	|| European Cup || Eilat || 2
|-
| 2006-02-19	|| Oceania Cup || Hobart || 5
|-
| 2006-03-18	|| Commonwealth Games || Melbourne || 3
|-
| 2006-03-26	|| World Cup || Mooloolaba || 3
|-
| 2006-06-04	|| World Cup || Madrid || 2
|-
| 2006-07-01	|| Premium European Cup || Kitzbühel || 3
|-
| 2006-07-30	|| BG World Cup || Salford || 3
|-
| 2006-08-20	|| European Cup || Geneva || DNF
|-
| 2006-09-03	|| World Championships || Lausanne || 10
|-
| 2006-09-10	|| BG World Cup || Hamburg || 45
|-
| 2006-09-24	|| BG World Cup || Beijing || 7
|-
| 2006-11-12	|| BG World Cup || New Plymouth	|| 10
|-
| 2007-03-04	|| Oceania Championships || Geelong || 4
|-
| 2007-03-25	|| BG World Cup || Mooloolaba || 6
|-
| 2007-03-31	|| Oceania Cup || Wellington || 4
|-
| 2007-04-15	|| BG World Cup || Ishigaki || 7
|-
| 2007-06-03	|| BG World Cup || Madrid || 2
|-
| 2007-07-22	|| BG World Cup || Kitzbühel || 1
|-
| 2007-09-15	|| BG World Cup || Beijing || 14
|-
| 2008-03-09	|| Oceania Championships || Wellington || 4
|-
| 2008-03-30	|| BG World Cup || Mooloolaba || 14
|-
| 2008-04-06	|| BG World Cup || New Plymouth	|| 10
|-
| 2008-05-25	|| BG World Cup || Madrid || 20
|-
| 2008-06-08	|| BG World Championships || Vancouver || 25
|-
| 2008-07-20	|| BG World Cup || Kitzbühel || 4
|-
| 2008-08-18	|| Olympic Games || Beijing || 8
|-
| 2008-09-27	|| BG World Cup || Lorient || 9
|-
| 2008-10-26	|| BG World Cup || Huatulco || 6
|-
| 2009-04-05	|| Oceania Cup || New Plymouth || 4
|-
| 2009-05-02	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Tongyeong	 || 39
|-
| 2009-05-31	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Madrid || 1
|-
| 2009-06-21	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Washington DC || 6
|-
| 2009-06-27	|| Elite Cup || Des Moines || 6
|-
| 2009-07-12	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Kitzbühel	|| 3
|-
| 2009-08-15	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || London || 9
|-
| 2009-08-22	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Yokohama || 2
|-
| 2009-09-13	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final || Gold Coast || 8
|-
| 2010-03-13	|| Oceania Championships || Wellington || 1
|-
| 2010-04-11	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Sydney || 2
|-
| 2010-05-08	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Seoul || 5
|-
| 2010-06-12	|| Elite Cup || Des Moines || 5
|-
| 2010-07-17	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Hamburg || 6
|-
| 2010-07-24	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || London || 4
|-
| 2010-08-15	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Kitzbühel	|| 3
|-
| 2010-09-12	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final || Budapest || 22
|-
| 2011-03-12	|| Oceania Championships || Wellington || 6
|-
| 2011-04-09	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Sydney || 3
|-
| 2011-06-05	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Madrid || 4
|-
| 2011-06-19	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Kitzbühel	|| 11
|-
| 2011-07-16	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Hamburg || 4
|-
| 2011-08-06	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || London || 6
|-
| 2011-08-19	|| Elite Sprint Triathlon World Championships || Lausanne || 3
|-
| 2011-09-11	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final || Beijing || 1
|-
| 2011-09-19	|| Dextro Energy World Championship Series || Yokohama || 1
|-
| 2011-11-20	|| Triathlon World Cup || Auckland || 1
|}

==Honours==
In the [[2018 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)|2018 Queen's Birthday Honours]], Hewitt was appointed a [[Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit]], for services to triathlon.<ref name="Retirement not an option">{{cite news |last1=Caldwell |first1=Olivia |title=Retirement not an option for NZ triathlon star Andrea Hewitt |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/104321143/retirement-not-an-option-for-nz-triathlon-star-andrea-hewitt |access-date=4 June 2018 |work=[[Stuff.co.nz]] |date=4 June 2018}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Andrea Hewitt}}
* {{World Triathlon|name=Andrea Hansen}}
* {{NZOC profile|name=Andrea Hansen}}
* {{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|57260|Andrea Hansen}}
* {{2018 Commonwealth Games profile|triathlon/athlete-profile-n6021242-andrea-hewitt|Andrea Hewitt}}
* {{2014 Commonwealth Games profile|triathlon/1024113/a_hewitt|Andrea Hewitt}}
* {{Olympics.com|name=Andrea Hewitt}}
* {{Olympedia|name=Andrea Hewitt}}

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