Fullname: | Jakie Kim Wellman |
Nicknames: | Matana |
Strokes: | Freestyle |
Club: | Kelly College (GBR) |
Collegeteam: | Missouri State University (U.S.) |
Birth Date: | 22 July 1988 |
Birth Place: | Lusaka, Zambia |
Height: | 1.70NaN0 |
Weight: | 650NaN0 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Jakie Kim Wellman (also Matana Wellman, born July 22, 1988) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a high school graduate of Kelly College in Devon, England, and a member of the swimming team for the Missouri State Bears, while attending the Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, United States.
Wellman qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.39.[2] Swimming in heat four, she raced to fourth place by 0.13 of a second behind Aruba's Roshendra Vrolijk in 28.56. Wellman failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fiftieth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.[3] [4]