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    Dame Kelly Holmes DBE OLY (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 ...

    • United Kingdom
    • 19 April 1970 (age 53), Pembury, Kent, England
    • 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
  2. Nov 14, 2023 · How Dame Kelly Holmes won her toughest race - to be herself, out and proud. Two dazzling images define truly golden moments in former athlete Kelly Holmes's life. The first is burned in...

  3. Jun 19, 2022 · Dame Kelly Holmes has announced that she is gay, saying she “needed to do this now”. Speaking during Pride month, the two-time gold medal winning Olympic champion said she realised she was gay...

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  5. Biography. Double Olympic Champion Col. Dame Kelly Holmes MBE (mil) is one of the UK’s most popular athletes, respected throughout the world as a role model and an inspiration. Setting and still holding the British records in the 800m and 1000m, Kelly is an Olympic, Commonwealth and European champion that has achieved seven Gold, eight Silver ...

  6. Oct 30, 2012 · Five nights later, in the final of the 1500m, Holmes burst into the lead around the final turn and earned her second gold. The 1500m victory made her the first British athlete to win a double ...

    • Oct 30, 2012
    • 264.2K
    • Olympics
  7. Jun 18, 2022 · 19 June 2022. By George Bowden. BBC News. Dame Kelly Holmes says she is "getting rid of that fear" as the Olympic champion reveals she is gay. In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, the...

  8. Jun 26, 2022 · Kelly Holmes: Being Me review – a victory in so many ways. For more than 30 years, the Olympic gold medallist lived in terror of people discovering she was gay. This raw, brave and remarkable...

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