Swimming super mum Hayley Lewis gave herself the perfect Mothers Day present when she won the 800 metres freestyle in front of her home crowd on the first day of the Telstra Grand Prix at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in Brisbane tonight.

Lewis staged a titantic struggle with her 16-year-old World Championship team mate Amanda Pascoe with Lewis taking victory by just 0.16 secs in a time of 8:45.64 to Pascoe's 8:45.80.

"If you had told me back in 1991 when I won the 200m freestyle