Vanuatuan sprinter
Elis Lapenmal
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| Born | (1987-09-06) September 6, 1987 (age 37) |
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| Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) |
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| Country |  Vanuatu |
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| Sport | Athletics |
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| Event | 100m |
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Elis Lapenmal (born 6 September 1987 in Malakula) is a Ni-Vanuatu sprinter.
Competing at the World Athletics Championships in 2007, Lapenmal ran the 100 metres in 13.10 seconds.[1] She won a silver medal at the South Pacific Mini Games, and qualified as a "wildcard entry" to represent Vanuatu in the 100 metres event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2]
Prior to the Beijing Games, the British newspaper The Guardian described her, along with Palestine's Hamza Abdu, as one of the Games' "underdogs",[3] and as such she has also been described as a "potential successor to (Eric) Moussambani".[4] In her first round heat in Beijing she placed eighth and last in a time of 13.31 which was not enough to advance to the second round.[5]
References
- ^ "Elis Lapenmal", L'Equipe
- ^ "Vanuatu table tennis gets Olympic invitation"[permanent dead link], ABC Radio Australia, May 7, 2008
- ^ "A to Z of the Olympics", The Guardian, June 29, 2008. The Guardian mistakenly identified Lapenmal as a male athlete.
- ^ "Lovable losers - the Olympic ideal or waste of space" Archived 2009-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, AFP, July 6, 2008
- ^ Athlete biography: Elis Lapenmal Archived 2008-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 27, 2008
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