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| Full name | Ellen Lendra Hight | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Zambia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 February 1981 Kalulushi, Copperbelt, Zambia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | ||||||||||||||
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Ellen Lendra Hight (born February 13, 1981) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] She represented her nation Zambia in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2008).
Hight made her first Zambian team debut, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat two of the women's 100 m butterfly, she touched out Uzbekistan's Mariya Bugakova to obtain a fifth-place finish and forty-seventh overall with a time of 1:09.34.[2][3]
Three years after her Olympic debut, Hight retired from swimming to focus primarily on her coaching career at the Pacific Coast Swimming Club in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[4]
In 2007, Hight came out of retirement to compete at the All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, where she had won a bronze medal in the women's 100 m butterfly, with an impressive time of 1:03.38. Her success and outstanding performance at the All-Africa Games marked her return to the Olympics in Beijing 2008 There, she swam to seventh and fifty-third overall in heat six of the women's 50 m freestyle, posting her best time at 27.42 seconds.[5]
Hight also received a bachelor of science degree major in sports science at the University of Bath in England, and was highly appointed as the nation's sport ambassador in 2003.[4]
References
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ellen Hight". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 224. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
- 1 2 "Ellen Hight Joins PCS". Pacific Coast Swimming. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle – Heat 6". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
External links
- Ellen Lendra Hight at World Aquatics
- Ellen Lendra Hight at SwimRankings.net
- Ellen Lendra Hight at Olympics.com
- Ellen Lendra Hight at Olympedia
- Ellen Lendra Hight at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Ellen Lendra Hight at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Ellen HIGHT at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived January 4, 2014)