(1970-04-19) 19 April 1970 (age 54) Pembury, Kent, England
Height
1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[1]
Website
kellyholmes.co.uk
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army Women's Royal Army Corps (1988–1992) Adjutant General's Corps (1992–1997)
Years of service
1988–1997
Rank
Sergeant
Sport
Country
Great Britain England
Sport
Running
Event(s)
800 metres, 1500 m
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
800 m: 1:56.21 (Monaco 1995)
1500 m: 3:57.90 (Athens 2004)
Indoors
800 m: 1:59.21i (Ghent 2003)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
2004 Athens
800 m
2004 Athens
1500 m
2000 Sydney
800 m
World Championships
1995 Gothenburg
1500 m
2003 Paris
800 m
1995 Gothenburg
800 m
World Indoor Championships
2003 Birmingham
1500 m
European Championships
1994 Helsinki
1500 m
2002 Munich
800 m
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
1994 Victoria
1500 m
2002 Manchester
1500 m
1998 Kuala Lumpur
1500 m
Dame Kelly HolmesDBE OLY[2] (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete.
Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres events and won gold medals for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the 600, and 1,000 metre distances. She held the British 800 metre record until 2021.
Inspired by a number of successful British middle-distance runners in the early 1980s, Holmes began competing in middle-distance events in her youth. She joined the British Army, but continued to compete at the organisation's athletics events. She turned to the professional athletics circuit in 1993 and in 1994 she won the 1,500 m at the Commonwealth Games and took silver at the European Championships. She won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1995 Gothenburg World Championships, but suffered from various injuries over the following years, failing to gain a medal at her first Olympics in Atlanta 1996 when running with a stress fracture. She won silver in the 1,500 m at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and bronze in the 800 m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, her first Olympic medal.
Holmes won the 1,500 m at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 800 m bronze at the Munich European Championships that year. The 2003 track season saw her take silver in the 1,500 m at the World Indoor Championships and the 800 m silver medals at the World Championships and first World Athletics Final.
She took part in her final major championship in 2004, with a double gold medal-winning performance at the Athens Olympics, finishing as the 800 m and 1,500 m Olympic Champion. For her achievements she won numerous awards and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2005. She retired from athletics in 2005 and has since been made an honorary colonel with the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment (RACTR). She has become a global motivational speaker, published five books, her latest being Running Life, and made a number of television appearances.
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occasionally trips when running in a pack. Olympic champions Dave Wottle, KellyHolmes and others have defied that logic by running a more evenly paced race...
medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, breaking the British record set by KellyHolmes in 1995. Hodgkinson is the 2022 and 2023 World Championships as well...
panellists on the show. On 7 September 2022, it was announced that Dame KellyHolmes would join the show as a regular panellist. On 3 May 2023, it was reported...
this event have also had success in the 800 metres at the Olympics. KellyHolmes was the last athlete to win both events at the same Olympics in 2004...
Olympic Spirit, but was renamed to avoid copyright infringement. Dame KellyHolmes agreed to become godmother to the Spirit of Britain. 8 June 2010: Spirit...
Wanderers F.C. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2019. "Neil Danns". Dame KellyHolmes Trust. Retrieved 7 October 2019. Iles, Marc (26 October 2013). "Bolton...
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Small was selected to join On Camp with Kelly, a mentoring and education program set up by Dame KellyHolmes for aspiring young athletes. Small is an...
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South Africa, and has also coached other world class 800 m runners like KellyHolmes, Namibian athlete Agnes Samaria and Tina Paulino, who is a distant relative...
interview was with Ed Miliband, followed by Rachel Riley, Jamie Carragher, KellyHolmes and Maro Itoje. When Government Adviser Dominic Cummings broke government...
Championships held in Beijing in a time of 4:11.48. On 22 July, Muir broke KellyHolmes' British record for the 1500 metres with a time of 3:57.49 to win the...
the victor, Hill was seen cheering and shouting with joy with Olympian KellyHolmes. Hill is the face of Arm & Hammer and has done three campaigns for the...
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