Morgan Lake
Lake at the 2014 World Junior Championships
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| Full name | Morgan Lake | |||||||||||||||||||||
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12 May 1997 Reading, Berkshire, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | England | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) |
Heptathlon: 6,148 points (Eugene, 2014) Pentathlon: 4,284 points (Växjö, 2014) High Jump 1.94 m (Sheffield, 2015) |
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Morgan Lake (born 12 May 1997) is a British track and field athlete, specialising in multi-event disciplines and the high jump. She is the 2014 World Junior champion in heptathlon and high jump, and the 2015 European Junior champion in high jump.
Lake broke the 29-year-old UK Under 17 high jump record, clearing 1.90m in 2013, and broke the 23-year-old UK Under 20 high jump record with 1.93m in 2014. She also broke the world indoor pentathlon youth (under-18) record in 2014, with a score of 4284 points. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, she became the first British woman to reach an Olympic high jump final since Debbie Marti in 1992.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, England, Lake began to compete competitively as an under-13 in 2008 at Slough Juniors Athletics Club. In 2009, she broke the UK under-13 pentathlon record with 3,046 points. In 2011, she broke the under-15 record with 3,755 points. At the English Schools Championships, she won the pentathlon and long jump in 2010 (under-15) and the long jump in 2012 (under-17). In 2013, she finished second at the British Indoor Championships in the high jump.
Lake competes for Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club and is coached by her father Eldon Lake. She also receives specialist coaching from Jeremy Tigar in the throw disciplines (shot put and javelin), Richard Aspden in the high jump and Ian Grant in the hurdles.
At the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Lake led after day one of the heptathlon by 192 points. The day included a UK Under 17 record of 1.90 m in the high jump, a height that would have been good enough to win the individual high jump event. The previous record of 1.89 by Debbie Marti, had stood for 29 years. However, on day two she could only manage 4.63 metres in the long jump, followed by two fouls. Then in the javelin, she could only throw 30.81 metres. These performances saw her drop down to sixth and she withdrew from the competition before the final event, the 800 metres.
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