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| Born | 9 June 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 800 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Keely Small (born 9 June 2001) is an Australian middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the women's 800 metres event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and at the 2019 Pacific Games.
Small competed in the women's 800 metres event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia. [1] In this event she did not advance to compete in the final. Later that year, she won the gold medal in the girls' 800 metres event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [2] Small was also her country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. [1]
In 2019, at the Pacific Games held in Samoa, she won the gold medal in the women's 800 metres event. [3]
Alpine skier Greta Small is her cousin. [1] Greta carried the Australian flag during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria. [1]
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