Morgan Lake born 12 May 1997
is a British high jumper.
She won the silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
and placed fourth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Lake finished sixth in the 2017 World Championships
in Athletics 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 combined events athlete as a teenager,
at age 17 Lake won the high jump and heptathlon titles
at the 2014 World U20 Championships.
She also broke the world indoor
U18 pentathlon record that year.
In 2015, she was the European U20 high jump champion.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics,
Lake became the first British woman
to reach an Olympic high jump final
since Debbie Marti in 1992.
She holds the British indoor record in the high jump
which is an outright national best.
She won 12 British national titles.
Lake was selected to represent Great Britain
at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, 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 British Athletics Championships
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 2020 Tokyo Olympics,
she qualified for the final with 1.95 m
but withdrew due to injury.
In 2022, she won the British title again,
finished fourth in the
Birmingham Commonwealth Games and
seventh at the European Championships in Munich.[3]
On 4 February 2023,
Lake broke the British indoor high jump record
with a clearance of 1.99 metres,
an outright national best,
