Morgan Lake
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Morgan Lake (born 12 May 1997)[3] is a British high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and placed fourth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Lake finished sixth in the 2017 World Championships in Athletics and fourth in the 2018 World Indoor Championships.
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Born | (1997-05-12) 12 May 1997 (age 27) Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In 2013, she broke the 29-year-old UK Under-17 high jump record, and the following year, she broke the 23-year-old UK U20 high jump record. A successful combined events athlete as a teenager, at age 17 Lake won the high jump and heptathlon titles at the 2014 World U20 Championships. She also broke the world indoor U18 pentathlon record that year. In 2015, she was the European U20 high jump champion. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Lake became the first British woman to reach an Olympic high jump final since Debbie Marti in 1992. She holds the British indoor record in the high jump which is an outright national best. She won 12 British national titles.