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Elka helps promote diabetes prevention via the 2010 NSW Corporate Games
Elka gave freely of her time to record a radio spot for Diabetes Australia-NSW's biggest annual fundraising event, the NSW Corporate Games. The ad. will be broadcast across national radio stations. Click here to listen to the radio ad
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Elka is an ambassador for Australian Women's Weekly's Worldwide Walk
Elka, together with the Federal Minister for Sport and Youth, celebrities and other sporting heroes, is encouraging everyone to get up and walk. The target is to circumnavigate the world and walk 40,075 kilometres. Read and comment on Elka's blog on walks throughout Italy from May to July.
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Elka wins battle of the long legs in a close shave
Elka has recently been appointed as ambassador for new Gillette Venus Embrace. The 5-blade razor for women keeps the pool goddess' long legs smoother for a faster swim. Elka has just completed a nationwide promotion of the new product.
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Elka excited by helping to save the environment
Elka will be shooting a major campaign for Mirabella and will be seen throughout Australia in commercials screening on Channel 9 along with appearances on radio and in print. "For every Mirabella energy saving light bulb you buy, a tree will be planted”.
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Swish Swisse
Also receiving wide media coverage this year, Elka will join cricket legend Ricky Ponting and shoot her own Swisse Vitamins TV commercial. She’ll be helping Ricky let Australians know that Swisse multi-vitamins are full of natural ingredients that ensure you feel 100% each and every day.
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McDonald’s Mission
McDonald’s has been supporting the Olympics Games and Australian athletes financially for over 30 years. Having been an Ambassador for McHappy Day last November, helping to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House and children and families in need, Elka has again teamed with McDonald’s for a new campaign. She will be the face of the company’s ‘fit and healthy’ promotion for young children, in which youngsters will have the chance to win a trip to Beijing to meet their Olympic hero! Elka will be seen regularly on Channel 7’s Sunrise program in the lead up to Beijing.
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TV Appearances
Since retiring from competitive swimming, Elka has appeared on all major free to air television stations (2, 7, 9 and 10) as well as subscription TV’s Fox Sports. Some of the shows in which she’s appeared are:
- Dancing With the Stars (Channel 7)
- The Glass House (ABC)
- The Panel (Channel 10)
- Sports Tonight (Channel 10)
- Sportsworld (Channel 7)
- Australia’s Brainiest Olympians (Channel 10)
- Home and Away (Channel 7)
- Fox Sports (Fox)
- Australia’s Next Top Model (Fox)
- Mornings With Kerri-Anne (Channel 9)
- Sunrise (Channel 7)
As a journalist, Elka has written for Marie Claire magazine and currently writes frequent articles for the Sun-Herald and New Idea magazine. Some of her recent articles are included here for your reading pleasure.
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