Ellen Hight Explained

Ellen Hight
Fullname:Ellen Lendra Hight
Strokes:Freestyle, butterfly
Birth Date:13 February 1981
Birth Place:Kalulushi, Copperbelt, Zambia
Height:1.650NaN0
Weight:580NaN0
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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 2008There, 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]

Notes and References

  1. Ellen Hight . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418115011/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/ellen-hight-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 23 November 2012.
  2. Web site: Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110819181023/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf . dead . 19 August 2011 . . . . 224 . 19 April 2013 .
  3. News: Newberry. Paul. Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free. https://archive.today/20130615211705/http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesSwimming/sep16_tho.html. usurped. June 15, 2013. Canoe.ca. 16 September 2000. 28 May 2013.
  4. News: Ellen Hight Joins PCS. Pacific Coast Swimming. 16 October 2003. 30 November 2012.
  5. Web site: Women's 50m Freestyle – Heat 6 . . 30 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821062506/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW010900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .