| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1987-09-06) September 6, 1987 (age 37) |
| Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Vanuatu |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | 100m |
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. 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.
Prior to the Beijing Games, the British newspaper The Guardian described her, along with Palestine's Hamza Abdu, as one of the Games' "underdogs", and as such she has also been described as a "potential successor to (Eric) Moussambani". 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.
References
- Elis Lapenmal at World Athletics
- Biography on the website of the Beijing Olympics
- "Elis Lapenmal", L'Equipe
- "Vanuatu table tennis gets Olympic invitation", 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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