Newman is a track-and-field athlete specializing in the pole vault, a sport in which she holds both the Canadian and the Commonwealth Games records for a woman. She competed in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Games, winning a bronze medal at the most recent event. This was the first time a Canadian woman had medalled in pole vault at the Olympics.
Her distance was 4.85 metres, which is now the Canadian record . Hardly.
Newman has a history of acknowledging and making use of her athleticism and sex appeal. “I’ve loved the fact that I can turn my strength and my beauty on the track into revenue and an empire,” she told the Toronto Star earlier this year. “Why wouldn’t I do that? Other people are making money off of my looks and likeness, just ask the Olympic Games.
” She has also set up an OnlyFans page, as have a number of other Olympians including rower Robbie Manson (New Zealand), divers Timo Barthel (Germany), Diego Belleza Isaias (Mexico) and Matthew Mitcham (Australia), and springboard diver Jack Laugher (Britain). Newman says she used the money she earned to buy property and build up her savings. “I never loved how amateur athletes can never make a lot of money,” she told the CBC .
“This is where my entrepreneurial skills came in.” Back in 2020, Newman also appeared in an ad for Agent Provocateur lingerie, alongside American hurdler and sprinter Queen Harrison Claye, American climber Sasha DiGiulian and British gymnast Georgia-Mae Fenton. The ad — and.
