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Dean Hewitt (born 9 November 1994) is an Australian curler from Melbourne. Hewitt and his teammate Tahli Gill made history in 2022 as the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics.[3] Hewitt and Gill are also the first Australian team to ever win a World Curling Championship title, winning the 2026 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.[4]

Career

Hewitt first played mixed doubles with his mother, Lynn Hewitt. Lynn and Dean together played as the Australian national mixed doubles curling team at the 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship[5][6]

At the 2019 World Mixed Doubles Championship, Hewitt and his new teammate Tahli Gill made it to the semifinals before being eliminated by Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg and Oskar Eriksson. In the bronze medal match, they again lost to John Shuster and Cory Christensen from the United States.[7] Their fourth-place finish was the best finish ever for an Australian team at any World Curling Championship to that point.[8] Gill and Hewitt were qualified for the 2020 World Mixed Doubles Championship, but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the 2021 Olympic Curling Qualification Event in December 2021, Gill and Hewitt made history when they won qualification to the mixed doubles tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics. They are the first ever Australian curling team (in any curling discipline) to qualify for the Winter Olympics.[9] At the Olympics, they finished with a 2–7 record, finishing in 10th place.

Gill and Hewitt would continue to find success in mixed doubles in the next Olympic quadrennial from 2022–26, performing well on the mixed doubles curling tour and consistently being ranked as one of the top 5 teams in the world.[10] They would also notably win a bronze medal at the 2025 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. This success would allow them to compete in the 2025 Olympic Qualification Event in the hopes of representing Australia at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Gill and Hewitt would finish round robin play with a 6–1 record, qualifying for the playoffs, but would lose to South Korea’s Kim Seon-yeong and Jeong Yeong-seok 10–5 in the final qualification game, failing to reach the Olympics. However, Gill and Hewitt would bounce back at the 2026 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, where they would finish 8–1 after the round robin and after beating Italy in the semifinals, would go on to defeat Sweden’s Therese Westman and Robin Ahlberg 8–4 in the gold medal game to win their first world championship, as well as the first world championship title in curling ever for Australia.[4]

Personal life

Dean Hewitt began curling when he was 6 years old.[11][12] Hewitt is from a curling family, as his mother and former mixed doubles partner, Canadian-born Lynn Hewitt,[13] played curling in Canada from her childhood. When she met Australian farmer Stephen (Steve) Hewitt,[14] she married him and they moved to Australia, and her husband began curling too. Steve was member of the Australian national men’s team and played in several Pacific Curling Championships.

Hewitt studied a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science and a Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology at Deakin University.[15][16] Outside of curling, Hewitt is a trained exercise physiologist, and works at an ice rink and a supermarket.[17]

Teams and events

Men’s

Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events
2011–12 Angus Young Dean Hewitt Maxwell Thomas Sam Williams Grant Hamsey Tim McMahon AMCC 2011 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
PAJCC 2012 (5th)
2012–13 Maxwell Thomas Dean Hewitt Sam Williams Grant Hamsey Mitchell Thomas Matt Panoussi PAJCC 2013 (5th)
2013–14 Maxwell Thomas Dean Hewitt Mitchell Thomas Grant Hamsey Matt Panoussi AMCC 2013 (4th)
PAJCC 2014 (5th)
2014–15 Dean Hewitt Maxwell Thomas Mitchell Thomas Grant Hamsey Tyler Hogan Matt Panoussi PAJCC 2015 (5th)
Ian Palangio Jay Merchant Dean Hewitt Steve Johns Archie Merchant AMCC 2014 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PACC 2014 (4th)
2015–16 Ian Palangio Jay Merchant Dean Hewitt Derek Smith Archie Merchant PACC 2015 (5th)
2016–17 Ian Palangio Jay Merchant Dean Hewitt Derek Smith Archie Merchant AMCC 2016 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PACC 2016 (7th)
2017–18 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Ian Palangio Christopher Ordog Hugh Millikin (Skip) Jay Merchant Archie Merchant AMCC 2017 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PACC 2017 (4th)
2018–19 Dean Hewitt Jay Merchant Rupert Jones Ian Palangio Steve Johns AMCC 2018 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Jay Merchant (Skip) Dustin Armstrong Steve Johns Bob Armstrong PACC 2018 (7th)
2019–20 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Sean Hall (Skip) Tanner Davis Jay Merchant Matthew Millikin Archie Merchant AMCC 2019 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PACC 2019 (6th)
2022–23 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Jay Merchant (Skip) Tanner Davis Justin Grundy Iain Grundy Chad Merchant,
Archie Merchant		 AMCC 2022 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PCCC 2022 (7th)
2023–24 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Jay Merchant (Skip) Tanner Davis Justin Grundy Thomas Bence Chad Merchant,
Archie Merchant		 AMCC 2023 1st place, gold medalist(s)
PCCC 2023 (6th)
2024–25 Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Steve Johns Stephen Hewitt Hugh Millikin (Skip) AMCC 2024 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Dean Hewitt (Fourth) Tanner Davis Steve Johns Hugh Millikin (Skip) Steve Hewitt Perry Marshall PCCC 2024

Mixed doubles

Season Female Male Coach Events
2014–15 Kristen Tsourlenes Dean Hewitt AMDCC 2014 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2015–16 Kristen Tsourlenes Dean Hewitt AMDCC 2015 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[18]
2016–17 Lynn Hewitt Dean Hewitt Jay Merchant AMDCC 2016 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WMDCC 2017 (18th)
2017–18 Lynn Hewitt Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs AMDCC 2017 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WMDCC 2018 (18th)
2018–19 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs AMDCC 2018 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WMDCC 2019 (4th)
2019–20 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt AMDCC 2019 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2020–21 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Pete Manasantivongs WMDCC 2021 (13th)
2021–22 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt John Morris (OQE),
Pete Manasantivongs		 OQE 2021 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WOG 2022 (10th)
WMDCC 2022 (11th)
2022–23 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Laura Walker AMDCC 2022 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WMDCC 2023 (8th)
2023–24 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall AMDCC 2023 1st place, gold medalist(s)
WMDCC 2024 (15th)
2024–25 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall WMDCC 2025 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2025–26 Tahli Gill Dean Hewitt Perry Marshall OQE 2025 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
WMDCC 2026 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ “Dean HEWITT”. Beijing 2022 Olympics. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  2. ^ “Curling Victoria”. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  3. ^ “Australia make history and qualify for Beijing 2022 Mixed Doubles Event”. World Curling Federation. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b “Australia are ACE & Company World Mixed Doubles 2026 champions”. World Curling. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  5. ^ Australian Olympic Committee: Mother and son put Australia on the curling map
  6. ^ “World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – Family ties on the ice at the World Mixed Doubles”. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  7. ^ “World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2019”. World Curling Federation. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  8. ^ “Australia’s Tahli Gill indebted to her mum for discovering curling”. World Curling Federation. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  9. ^ “Australia make history and qualify for Beijing 2022 Mixed Doubles Event”. World Curling Federation. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  10. ^ “2024–25 World Curling Federation Rankings”. CurlingZone. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  11. ^ 2018 Winter Olympics | Pyeongchang: Australian Dean Hewitt on curling – PlayersVoice
  12. ^ “Dean Hewitt – Deakin Life”. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018.
  13. ^ Lynn Hewitt | WCF
  14. ^ Steve Hewitt | WCF
  15. ^ “The Beijing Winter Olympics begin this week: meet the Deakin students representing Australia!”. Deakin Life. Deakin University. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  16. ^ Webb, Emily (3 September 2014). “Glen Waverley home to national curling champion”. Herald Sun. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  17. ^ Bakalla, Ilias (20 December 2021). “Beach to Beijing: The young duo representing Australia for the first time in curling at the Winter Olympics”. The Feed. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  18. ^ “Australian Curling Federation – 2015 National Mixed Doubles Championships Results”. Archived from the original on 29 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2019.