Ellen Hight

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Ellen Hight
Personal information
Full nameEllen Lendra Hight
NationalityFlag of Zambia.svg  Zambia
Born (1981-02-13) 13 February 1981 (age 42)
Kalulushi, Copperbelt, Zambia
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia
All-Africa Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Algiers 100 m butterfly

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]

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