Morgan Lake

Morgan Lake
Morgan Lake in Eugene 2014
Full name	Morgan Alexandra Lake
nation	United Kingdom of England
birthday	12th May 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Reading , UK
size	180 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	1.97 m
society	Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow AC
Trainer	Fuzz Caan
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Commonwealth Games silver Gold Coast 2018 1.93 m  Junior World Championships gold Eugene 2014 1.93 m gold Eugene 2014 6148 points  Junior European Championships gold Eskilstuna 2015 1.91 m
last change: May 11, 2020

Morgan Alexandra Lake (born May 12, 1997 in Reading , England ) is a British high jumper who started her career in the heptathlon .

Athletic career

Morgan Lake was very successful from a young age. She set several British records for children and adolescents in the high jump and heptathlon. In 2013 she took part in the World Youth Championships . As the leader on the 1st day, she gave up the competition after a very bad long jump and javelin throw. In 2014 she improved the U18 world record of the Swede Carolina Klüft to 4284 points in a pentathlon in Växjö . In May 2014 she also improved the British youth record in the heptathlon and set a new British high jump record with 1.93 m. Her greatest successes as a heptathlete so far were winning two gold medals at the Junior World Championships in Eugene . This was followed by participation in the high jump at the European Championships in Zurich , where she was eliminated in qualification.

In 2015, she finished ninth at the European Indoor Championships in Prague with 4527 points. She won another gold medal in the high jump at the Junior European Championships with a height of 1.91 m. This was followed by participation in the World Championships in Beijing , where she was eliminated with 1.89 m in qualification . In 2016 she was seventh in the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Portland with 4499 points and could not finish the competition at the European Championships in Amsterdam . At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she made it to the finals and finished tenth there with a skipped 1.93 m.

In 2017 Lake again took part in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and finished eighth there with a height of 1.85 m. In August she reached sixth place at the home world championships in London with 1.95 m in the final . The following year she was fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 1.93 m and then won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast behind Levern Spencer from St. Lucia with 1.93 m . In August she came seventh at the European Championships in Berlin with 1.91 m and in 2019 she finished ninth with the same height at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow . She then reached sixth place at the U23 European Championships in Gävle with 1.85 m and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Doha with 1.85 m .

From 2016 to 2019 , Lake was British champion in the high jump outdoors and from 2016 to 2019 also in the hall.

Personal best

• High jump: 1.97 m: June 30, 2018 in Birmingham
  • High jump (hall): 1.97 m, January 26, 2019 in Hustopeče ( British record )
• Heptathlon: 6148 points, July 23, 2014 in Eugene
  • Pentathlon (hall): 4527 points, March 6, 2015, Prague

Web links

Commons : Morgan Lake  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Morgan Lake in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Morgan Lake in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at The Power of Ten
• IAAF Inside Athletics - Morgan Lake ( English ) IAAF. July 26, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Parker Morse: Lake superior to heptathlon and high jump rivals ( English ) IAAF. July 24, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2017.