Lee Naylor (sprinter)

{{Short description|Australian sprinter (born 1971)}}

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{{Medal|Bronze| 1995 Gothenburg | 4x400m relay}}

{{Medal|Competition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{Medal|Gold | 1998 Kuala Lumpur |4x400 m relay }}

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Lee Michelle Naylor {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} (born 26 January 1971 in Shepparton, Victoria) is a retired sprinter from Australia. She qualified to the quarter-finals in the 400 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics before finishing 8th and ran on her national 4 × 400 metres relay team that finished sixth in the qualifying round. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she repeated qualifying to the quarter-finals then finishing 8th in the quarterfinals.{{Cite web |date=2020-04-18 |title=Lee Naylor Bio, Stats, and Results |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/na/lee-naylor-1.html |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025939/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/na/lee-naylor-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |url-status=dead}}

At the 1995 World Championships in Athletics her relay team captured the bronze medal. She ran the third leg on her relay team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games that won gold. She also set her personal record at 51.35 that year. At the 1999 World Championships in Athletics she was disqualified for a lane violation.{{Cite web |title=Lee Naylor |url=http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2000/profiles/LEENAYLOR.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070508191739/http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2000/profiles/LEENAYLOR.htm |archive-date=2007-05-08 |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=ABC}}

Naylor received a doctorate in neurochemistry from the University of Melbourne.{{Citation |author1=Naylor |first=Lee Michelle |title=Implications of the serotonin transporter in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33046044 |publication-date=1999 |access-date=13 June 2022}}

She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours.{{Cite web |title=Dr Lee Michelle Naylor |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2011516 |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=It's an Honour}}

She is the mother of Australian rules football player Max Holmes.{{Cite web |last=Cleary |first=Mitch |date=2021-04-02 |title=Shock debut: Cats to unleash speedster on Easter Monday |url=https://www.afl.com.au/news/575378/shock-debut-cats-to-unleash-speedster-on-easter-monday |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=AFL |language=en}}