Elis Lapenmal

{{short description|Vanuatuan sprinter}}

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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.[https://www.lequipe.fr/Athletisme/AthletismeFicheAthlete11176.html "Elis Lapenmal"], L'Equipe 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.[http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200805/s2238084.htm?tab=sport "Vanuatu table tennis gets Olympic invitation"]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ABC Radio Australia, May 7, 2008

Prior to the Beijing Games, the British newspaper The Guardian described her, along with Palestine's Hamza Abdu, as one of the Games' "underdogs",[https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/jun/29/olympicgames2008.olympicgames1 "A to Z of the Olympics"], The Guardian, June 29, 2008. The Guardian mistakenly identified Lapenmal as a male athlete. and as such she has also been described as a "potential successor to (Eric) Moussambani".[http://www.france24.com/en/20080706-lovable-losers-olympic-ideal-or-waste-space "Lovable losers - the Olympic ideal or waste of space"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116190905/http://www.france24.com/en/20080706-lovable-losers-olympic-ideal-or-waste-space |date=2009-01-16 }}, AFP, July 6, 2008 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.[http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/8003858.shtml Athlete biography: Elis Lapenmal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909070632/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/8/8003858.shtml |date=2008-09-09 }}, beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 27, 2008