Personal information | |
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Full name | Jakie Kim Wellman |
Nickname | Matana |
National team | Zambia |
Born | Lusaka, Zambia | 22 July 1988
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | Kelly College (GBR) |
College team | Missouri State University (U.S.) |
Jakie Kim Wellman (also Matana Wellman, born July 22, 1988) is a Zambian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] She is a high school graduate of Kelly College in Devon, England, and a member of the swimming team for the Missouri State Bears, while attending the Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, United States.
Wellman qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.39. [2] Swimming in heat four, she raced to fourth place by 0.13 of a second behind Aruba's Roshendra Vrolijk in 28.56. Wellman failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fiftieth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries. [3] [4]