Ellen Lendra Hight (born February 13, 1981) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She represented her nation

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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

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in Sydney. Swimming in heat two of the women's 100 m butterfly, she touched out Uzbekistan's

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to obtain a fifth-place finish and forty-seventh overall with a time of 1:09.34. Three years after her Olympic debut, Hight retired from swimming to focus primarily on her coaching career at the Pacific Coast Swimming Club in

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, Canada. In 2007, Hight came out of retirement to compete at the

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, 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

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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. Hight also received a bachelor of science degree major in sports science at the

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, and was highly appointed as the nation's sport ambassador in 2003.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hight, Ellen Lendra 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