'Tokyo was a tough time for me. It has just given me more momentum to focus on Paris.'
High jumper Morgan Lake is competing at her second Olympics Morgan Lake made her name as the first British woman to make an Olympic high jump final since 1992 at the 2016 games in Rio, while still a teenager. Although she came in tenth place, the Milton-Keynes born athlete has gone on to win numerous medals, including picking up silver both at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the Athletics World Cup.
’ Lake missed Tokyo 2020 through a late injury What’s the best route into competing in high jump? ‘I had a passion for athletics from around the age of six-years-old and was fortunate that my father was a British junior international triple jumper so I had him to look up too. ‘Fortunately these days there are so many athletic clubs you can sign up to around the country where you can learn to high jump from very experienced coaches.
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