Ellen Hight

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).

Ellen Hight
Personal information
Full nameEllen Lendra Hight
Nationality Zambia
Born (1981-02-13) 13 February 1981
Kalulushi, Copperbelt, Zambia
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Zambia
All-Africa Games
Bronze medal – third place2007 Algiers100 m butterfly

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
  1. 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.
  2. "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.
  3. Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  4. "Ellen Hight Joins PCS". Pacific Coast Swimming. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  5. "Women's 50m Freestyle – Heat 6". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
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