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Morgan Lake (born 12 May 1997) is a British
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er. She won the silver medal at the
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and placed fourth at the
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. Lake finished sixth in the
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and fourth in the 2018 World Indoor Championships. 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
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as a teenager, at age 17 Lake won the high jump and
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titles at the 2014 World U20 Championships. She also broke the world indoor U18
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record that year. In
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, she was the European U20 high jump champion. At the
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, Lake became the first British woman to reach an Olympic high jump final since
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in 1992. She holds the British indoor record in the high jump which is an outright national best. She won 12 British national titles.


Athletics career

Born in
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, England, Lake began to compete competitively as an under-13 in 2008 at Slough Juniors Athletics Club. In 2009, she broke the UK U13 pentathlon record with 3046 points. In 2011, she broke the U15 record with 3755 points. At the English Schools Championships, she won the pentathlon and long jump in 2010 (U15) and the long jump in 2012 (U17). In 2013, the 15-year-old finished second in the high jump at the British Indoor Championships.


Coaching

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.


2013

At the 2013 World Youth Championships in
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, Ukraine, 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 m by
Debbie Marti Deborah Jane Marti (born 14 May 1968) is a former high jumper from England, who was born in Switzerland. She represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996, finishing ninth in the 1992 final. She set her out ...
had stood for 29 years. However, on day two she could only manage 4.63 m in the long jump, followed by two fouls. Then in the javelin, she could only throw 30.81 m. These performances saw her drop down to sixth and she withdrew from the competition before the final event, the
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race.


2014

In February 2014, Lake competed in an indoor athletics event in Vaxjo, Sweden, where she broke the World U18 record for the pentathlon, improving
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's score of 4261, with 4284 points. On 2 and 3 May 2014, Lake won the prestigious Multistars international event in her debut at the senior heptathlon. Still 9 days short of her 17th birthday, she became by four years the youngest champion in the 27-year history of the event. Her score of 5896 points exceeded by 780 points the performance (5116 points) achieved by Olympic champion
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at the age of 17 when placing 13th in the same event in 2003. Lake's performance also exceeded by 415 points the previous UK Youth record for the heptathlon (5481 points), set in 2009 by
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. On 18 May, she broke the 23-year-old UK junior high jump record with a clearance of 1.93 m in
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. The previous record of 1.91 m was set by Lea Haggett in 1991 and was equalled in 1997 by Susan Jones. On 31 May and 1 June 2014, Lake competed at the
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in
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, Austria, generally considered the premier multi-events meeting in the annual athletics calendar. She achieved 17th place, improving her lifetime best score and UK Youth record by 185 points to a total of 6081 points. This performance also ranked her second on the UK U20 all-time list, behind Johnson-Thompson, and improved by 90 points the European U18 record of 5991 points achieved in 2005 by
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of Russia, the 2011 World Champion at heptathlon. Lake's individual performances in Götzis included three new personal bests in the shot put, a personal best in the 200 metres and two personal bests in the javelin throw. In July 2014, Lake and her coaches initially planned to have her compete in the
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, but decided against it and headed for the 2014 World Junior Championships in
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instead. She began her campaign at the championships on 22 July with the 100 m hurdles, finishing 12th overall with a time of 14.29 s. She stormed to the top of the heptathlon table with 2096 points, setting a British junior record of 1.94 m in the high jump. The only athlete to have cleared 1.85 m, she attempted a world U18 record and British senior record height of 1.97 m, but failed to clear it. She began the afternoon session with a win in the shot put, throwing 14.17 m to take her total to 2901 points. She closed the day with the 200 m, finishing in third place behind German world youth champion Celina Leffler and Dutch athlete Nadine Visser to end with a total of 3821 points and remain at the top of the heptathlon table. Lake started the second day relatively poorly, finishing fourth in the long jump in with a distance of 5.90 m. However, her total rose to 4640 points, still enough to keep her at the top of the heptathlon table. She finished in sixth place in the javelin throw the same morning with a personal best of 41.66 m, but remained on top of the overall table. Lake then closed the day with a seventh-place finish in the 800 m with a personal best time of 2:21.06, but secured the gold medal with a final total of 6148 points, ahead of Cuban
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and Visser. On 27 July, the final day of the championships, Lake competed in the individual high jump event, and took her second gold medal with a height of 1.93 m. She and silver medallist
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of the Czech Republic were the only competitors to have managed to clear 1.91 m. Lake went on to make three attempts at 1.97 m as she did in the heptathlon high jump five days earlier, but again failed to set a new British senior record.


2016–2018

In August 2016, Lake competed for
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at the
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in the individual high jump event, achieving a personal best of 1.94 m and reaching the final. In the finals, she finished joint 10th with a leap of 1.93 m. In 2017, she jumped her personal best of 1.97 m in
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, the second best jump ever by a British female. Lake finished fourth at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, with a clearance of 1.93 metres, missing out on a medal on countback. A month later, she won a silver medal at the
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, with another clearance of 1.93 m.


2019–2021

Lake was selected to represent Great Britain at the
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in
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, Qatar. She competed in the high jump and was eliminated during qualification after failing at 1.89 m. In 2020, she became British champion for the fifth successive year when winning the high jump event at the
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with a jump of 1.80 metres. She also finished second in the indoor competition with 1.84 m. In 2021, Lake once again won the British Championships with a leap of 1.93 m. At the postponed
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, she qualified for the final with 1.95 m but withdrew due to injury.


2022–present

In 2022, she won the British title again, finished fourth in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and seventh at the
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in
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. On 4 February 2023, Lake broke the British indoor high jump record with a clearance of 1.99 metres in
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, Czech Republic. After winning the high jump gold medal at the
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, Lake was subsequently named in the Great Britain team for the
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. She failed to qualify for the final at the Games in
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with a best clearance of 1.88 metres which was 4 cm short of the height required to get through.


Statistics


International competitions


National titles

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** High jump: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 *
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** High jump indoor: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023


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Morgan Lake
at the
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