Kelly Holmes
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nation | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | April 19, 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Pembury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 163 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Middle distance run | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dame Kelly Holmes , DBE (born April 19, 1970 in Pembury , Kent ) is a former British middle-distance runner and two-time Olympic champion .
biography
Holmes celebrated her first success at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, where she won the 1500 meter race . in the same year she won silver over the same distance at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki . At the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, she won bronze over 800 meters . In 1996 and 1997 she had bad luck with injuries; she suffered a stress fracture and a ruptured Achilles tendon . Holmes won the silver medal over 1500 meters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she was third behind Maria de Lurdes Mutola and Stephanie Graf over 800 meters . 2002 was also a successful year: at the European Championships in Munich she was third in the 800 meters, and at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester she won the 1,500 meter race. In 2003 she came second twice; over 800 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis and at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham over 1500 meters.
She celebrated her greatest success at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she won the 800-meter race ahead of Hasna Benhassi and Jolanda Čeplak . Her training partner, the so far superior Maria Mutola, was only fourth. The first three were only separated by five hundredths of a second. A few days later, Holmes won again and became Olympic champion over 1500 meters. In the same year she was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year , Sportsman of the Year in Great Britain. After persistent injuries to the Achilles tendon, she ended her career in early December 2005.
Kelly Holmes had a competition weight of 55 kg with a height of 1.63 m. In addition to her work as an athlete, Holmes was also a sports coach in the British Army. Despite many breaks due to injuries, she is considered the most successful British middle-distance runner of all time. On January 1, 2005, Kelly Holmes was ennobled by Queen Elizabeth II as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) . On April 12, 2005, Holmes was the godmother of the then largest British cruise ship, the Arcadia . In the same year she was named World Sportswoman of the Year .
The University of Greenwich awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2006 . In the same year she took part in the first season of the figure skating show Dancing on Ice .
Personal best
- 800 m: 1: 56.21 min, September 9, 1995, Monaco
- 1000 m: 2: 32.55 min, June 15, 1997, Leeds
- 1500 m: 3: 57.90 min, August 28, 2004, Athens
Awards
- 2004: Europe's sportswoman of the year
- 2004: "European Athlete of the Year Trophy" ( EAA )
- 2004: Sportsman of the Year in Great Britain
- 2005: Laureus World Sports Awards - World Sportswoman of the Year
Web links
- Official website of Dame Kelly Holmes
- Kelly Holmes in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Kelly Holmes on sporting-heroes.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dame Kelly Holmes Gets Honorary Degree And Gives Inspirational Speech ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 23, 2006, University of Greenwich website
- ^ Dame Kelly slides off show , Feb. 20, 2006, Manchester Evening News
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SURNAME | Holmes, Kelly |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British middle-distance runner and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pembury , Kent |