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| Born | August 17, 1989 Kauai, Hawaii, USA |
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| Residence | South Lake Tahoe, California | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.55 metres (5 ft 1 in) (2010)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 52.0 kilograms (115 lb) (2010)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Website | elenahight.com | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | snowboarding | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | halfpipe | |||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Mike Jankowski | |||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2006 Winter Olympics 6th ladies' halfpipe 2010 Winter Olympics 10th ladies' halfpipe |
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Elena Hight (born August 17, 1989 in Kauai[2]) is an American Olympic snowboarder.
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Hight started snowboarding in 1995 and competing in 2002. Her best World Cup finish was third in a halfpipe event in Spain in 2009.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Hight finished sixth in the halfpipe event. She finished 19th in the halfpipe at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2005 in Whistler, British Columbia.
At the January 2010 Winter X Games XIV in Aspen, Colorado, Hight placed sixth in the Women's Snowboard SuperPipe.
On January 26, 2010, Hight made the 2010 Winter Olympics US team. At the Olympics on February 18, 2010 on Vancouver's Cypress Mountain, she finished 10th in the ladies' halfpipe with a 2-run best score of 24.6. It was third best of the four American competitors (Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, Gretchen Bleiler, and Hight), the same four who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics.