Английская Википедия:Ellen Hight
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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]
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- Living people
- 1981 births
- People from Kalulushi District
- White Zambian people
- Zambian female butterfly swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Zambia
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Zambia
- Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Zambian female freestyle swimmers
- African Games bronze medalists for Zambia
- African Games medalists in swimming
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- Alumni of the University of Bath
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