1. Morgan Lake was born on 12 May 1997 and is a British high jumper.
17 Facts About Morgan Lake
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Morgan Lake won the silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and placed fourth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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Morgan Lake broke the world indoor U18 pentathlon record that year.
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At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Morgan Lake became the first British woman to reach an Olympic high jump final since Debbie Marti in 1992.
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Morgan Lake holds the British indoor record in the high jump which is an outright national best.
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Morgan Lake competes for Windsor, Slough, Eton and Hounslow Athletic Club and is coached by her father Eldon Morgan Lake.
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Morgan Lake receives specialist coaching from Jeremy Tigar in the throw disciplines, Richard Aspden in the high jump and Ian Grant in the hurdles.
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At the 2013 World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine, Morgan Lake led after day one of the heptathlon by 192 points.
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In February 2014, Morgan Lake competed in an indoor athletics event in Vaxjo, Sweden, where she broke the World U18 record for the pentathlon, improving Carolina Kluft's score of 4261, with 4284 points.
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On 2 and 3 May 2014, Morgan Lake won the prestigious Multistars international event in her debut at the senior heptathlon.
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Morgan Lake's performance exceeded by 415 points the previous UK Youth record for the heptathlon, set in 2009 by Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
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On 31 May and 1 June 2014, Morgan Lake competed at the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria, generally considered the premier multi-events meeting in the annual athletics calendar.
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Morgan Lake achieved 17th place, improving her lifetime best score and UK Youth record by 185 points to a total of 6081 points.
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Morgan 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.
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Morgan Lake finished fourth at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, with a clearance of 1.93 metres, missing out on a medal on countback.
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Morgan Lake was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.
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On 4 February 2023, Morgan Lake broke the British indoor high jump record with a clearance of 1.99 metres in Hustopece, Czech Republic.