Kelly Holmes

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Dame
Kelly Holmes
DBE , OLY
Kelly Holmes at Athens 2004 cropped.jpg
Holmes at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born (1970-04-19) 19 April 1970 (age 53)
Pembury, Kent, England
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) [1]
Website kellyholmes.co.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Women's Royal Army Corps (1988–1992)
Adjutant General's Corps (1992–1997)
Years of service1988–1997
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 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Athens 800 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2004 Athens 1500 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2000 Sydney 800 m
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1995 Gothenburg 1500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Paris 800 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg1995 Gothenburg 800 m
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Birmingham 1500 m
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1994 Helsinki 1500 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 Munich 800 m
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Victoria 1500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Manchester 1500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1998 Kuala Lumpur 1500 m

Dame Kelly Holmes DBE OLY [2] (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete.

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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.

Early life and army career

Holmes was born in Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, the daughter of Derrick Holmes, a Jamaican-born car mechanic, and an English mother, Pam Norman. Her mother was 17 at the time of her birth, and seven years later married painter and decorator Michael Norris, whom Holmes regards as her father. Holmes grew up in Hildenborough, Kent, where she attended Hildenborough CEP School, and then Hugh Christie Comprehensive School in Tonbridge from the age of 12.

She started training for athletics at the age of 12, joining Tonbridge Athletics Club, where she was coached by David Arnold and went on to win the English Schools 1,500 metres in her second season in 1983. Her hero was British middle-distance runner Steve Ovett, and she was inspired by his success at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

However, Holmes later turned away from athletics, joining the British Army at the age of 18, having left school two years earlier to work first as an assistant in a sweet shop and later as a nursing assistant for disabled patients. In the army, she became a HGV driver in the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC), later becoming a basic physical training instructor (PTI). [3] Holmes then elected in June 1990 to attend the first course to be run under the army's new physical training syllabus, and passed out as a Class 2 PTI. Although militarily quite young, Holmes's athletic prowess was impressive and she was encouraged to attend the course selection for full-time transfer to the Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC) at Aldershot.

Holmes eventually qualified as a class 1 PTI, [4] although she remained in the Adjutant General's Corps after the disbandment of the WRAC in 1992. She also became British Army judo champion and at an athletics event, she competed in and won an 800 metres, a 3,000 metres and a relay race in a single day. She also won the heptathlon.

Holmes watched the 1992 Summer Olympics on television, and on seeing Lisa York in the heats of the 3,000 metres – an athlete whom she had competed against, and beaten – she decided to return to athletics. For several years she combined athletics with employment in the army, [5] until increased funding allowed her to become a full-time athlete in 1997.

Athletics career

2004 Athens Olympic Games

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Holmes on parade

While training in 2003 for the 2004 Summer Olympics at a French training camp, Holmes suffered leg injuries and was depressed, she began cutting herself. [6] "I made one cut for every day that I had been injured", Holmes stated in an interview with the News of the World newspaper. At least once, she considered suicide, but she eventually sought help from a doctor and was diagnosed with clinical depression. While she could not use anti-depressants because it would affect her performance, she began using herbal serotonin tablets. In 2005, after her achievements at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Holmes chose to talk about her self-harm to show others that being a professional athlete is an extremely difficult thing to do and places the athlete under tremendous amounts of stress. Later, in September 2017, Holmes explained that "at my lowest, I was cutting myself with scissors every day that I was injured." Holmes's honesty quickly won her praise from people on Twitter. [7]

2004 saw Holmes arrive at a major competition, the Athens Olympics, with no injury worries for just about the first time in her career. She had originally planned to compete in just the 1,500 m but a victory over Jolanda Čeplak before the games had many saying she should take her chance in the 800 m as well.[ citation needed ] Holmes did not announce her decision to race in both events until five days before the 800 m finals.

Along with three time World Champion Maria de Lurdes Mutola and Čeplak, Holmes was considered one of the favourites for the gold medal in the 800 m. In the final, Holmes ran a well-paced race, ignoring a fast start by a number of the other competitors, and moved into the lead ahead of Mutola on the final bend, taking the gold on the line ahead of Hasna Benhassi and Čeplak, with Mutola in fourth. Holmes became the seventh British woman to win an athletics gold, and the second after Ann Packer in 1964 to win the 800 metres.

In the final of the 1,500 m, again running from the rear of the field, she took the lead in the final straight, holding off World Champion Tatyana Tomashova of Russia.[ citation needed ] She thus became only the third woman in history to do the 800 m and 1,500 m double (after Tatyana Kazankina of the Soviet Union in 1976 and Svetlana Masterkova of Russia in 1996), and Britain's first double gold medallist at the same games since Albert Hill in 1920.[ citation needed ] Her time of 3 minutes 57.90 seconds in the 1,500m final set a new British record for the distance.[ citation needed ]

Subsequently, Holmes was given the honour of carrying the British flag at the closing ceremony of the games, on 29 August, the day after her second victory.[ citation needed ] A homecoming parade was held in her honour through the streets of Hildenborough and Tonbridge on 1 September, which was attended by approximately 40,000 people.[ citation needed ] Holmes won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2004, saying she achieved her goals after "20 years of dreaming". She also asserted the award was "the biggest sporting honour your country can give you". The tributes to her at the BBC awards ceremony were led by the six British female athletes who had previously won gold at the Olympic Games in a "Magnificent Seven"-style feature – those six being Mary Rand, Ann Packer, Mary Peters, Tessa Sanderson, Sally Gunnell and Denise Lewis.[ citation needed ]

Personal bests

EventTimeVenueDate
600 metres 1:25.41 (British record) Liège, Belgium2 September 2003
800 metres 1:56.21 (British record until 2021) Monte Carlo, Monaco9 September 1995
800 metres indoor1:59.21 Ghent, Belgium9 February 2003
1000 metres 2:32.55 (British record) Leeds, United Kingdom15 June 1997
1000 metres indoor2:32.96 Birmingham, United Kingdom20 February 2004
1500 metres 3:57.90 Athens, Greece28 August 2004
1500 metres indoor4:02.66 Birmingham, United Kingdom16 March 2003
One mile 4:28.04 Glasgow, United Kingdom30 August 1998
3000 metres 9:01.91 Gateshead, United Kingdom13 July 2003

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain and Flag of England.svg  England
1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany5th (sf)800 m 1:58.64
1994 Commonwealth Games Victoria, British Columbia, Canada1st1500 m 4:08.86
European Championships Helsinki, Finland2nd1500 m 4:19.30
IAAF World Cup London, England3rd1500 m 4:10.81
European Cup Birmingham, England2nd1500 m 4:06.48
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden3rd800 m 1:56.95
2nd1500 m 4:03.04
European Cup Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France1st1500 m 4:07.02
1996 European Cup Madrid, Spain2nd800 m 1:58.20
Olympic Games Atlanta, Georgia, United States4th800 m 1:58.81
11th1500 m 4:07.46
1997 European Cup Munich, Germany1st1500 m 4:04.79
1998 Commonwealth Games Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2nd1500 m 4:06.10
1999 World Championships Seville, Spain4th (sf)800 m 2:00.77
2000 Summer Olympics Sydney, Australia3rd800 m 1:56.80
7th1500 m 4:08.02
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada6th800 m 1:59.76
2002 European Championships Munich, Germany3rd800 m 1:59.83
11th (h)1500 m 4:08.11
Commonwealth Games Manchester, England1st1500 m 4:05.99
2003 World Championships Paris, France2nd800 m 2:00.18
World Indoor Championships Birmingham, England2nd1500 m 4:02.66
IAAF World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 2nd800 m 1:59.92
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary9th1500 m 4:12.30
Summer Olympics Athens, Greece1st800 m 1:56.38
1st1500 m 3:57.90
IAAF World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco1st1500 m 4:04.55

Honours and awards

Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon.png Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)(Civil Division) 2005 "for services to athletics". [11] She was invested with the honour by HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace on 9 March 2005, accompanied by her parents and grandfather.
Order of the British Empire (Military) Ribbon.png Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)(Military Division) 1998 "for services to the British Army".

In 2007, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Loughborough University. [12]

In 2010, Holmes was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame.

In 2018, she was made honorary colonel of the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment. [13]

Dame Kelly Holmes Trust

In 2008, Holmes founded the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, a registered charity, [14] to support young athletes and help the lives of young people facing disadvantage across the UK. [15] As part of her pledge to the charity, she participated in the Powerman UK duathlon in 2014, one of several fundraising events she took part in. [16]

Post-athletics career

Since 2004, Holmes has taken part in "On Camp with Kelly" athletics camps which train junior athletes, sponsored by insurance company Aviva (formerly Norwich Union). [17]

In 2005, she won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year.[ citation needed ] The same year, she named the P&O Cruise ship MS Arcadia. [18] On 21 August, she competed in her final race in the UK, the 800 m at the Norwich Union British Grand Prix meeting in Sheffield. Her training schedule during the summer of 2005 had been disrupted by a recurrent Achilles tendon injury, and she finished the race in eighth place, limping across the finish line and completing a lap of honour on a buggy.

On 6 December 2005, Holmes announced her retirement from athletics, saying she had reassessed her future after the death of a friend, as well as citing a lack of motivation to continue.

In May 2009, Holmes was named as the president of Commonwealth Games England, succeeding Sir Chris Chataway, who had held the post since 1994. The organisation's chairman Sir Andrew Foster said: "Dame Kelly has been an outstanding athlete both for Team England and Great Britain. She is a truly inspirational and respected figure in the sporting world and will be a wonderful ambassador for Commonwealth Games England." [19]

On 18 March 2019, Holmes, along with Paula Radcliffe and Sharron Davies, announced they would be writing a letter to the International Olympic Committee targeting trans women who compete in women's sports categories. [20]

Television and radio

In November 2010, Holmes took part in the ITV game show The Cube . In October 2011, she appeared live on Dubai One lifestyle show Studio One where she talked about her life and career after athletics.

In 2013 Holmes became the face of MoneyForce, a programme run by the Royal British Legion to deliver money advice to the UK armed forces. [21]

In early 2015, she took part in the ITV series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive and was the runner-up after a 12-day survival mission.

In 2017, Holmes presented episode five of the BBC One television series Women at War: 100 Years of Service. [22]

In December 2017, Holmes spoke about her 2003 mental health issues in an episode of All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 [23] and in 2018 was one of the judges of the programme's awards. [24]

Since September 2022, Holmes has been a regular panelist on the ITV Loose Women talk show.

Cafe 1809 and The 1809 Hub

In 2014 Holmes opened a cafe and community hub in Hildenborough named Cafe 1809 after her 2004 Olympics bib number. She opened a sister branch of the cafe in Gravesend in 2017, but this closed after a few months.

In October 2018 Holmes announced the cafe would close the following month, before re-opening as The 1809 Hub: "a space for events, pop-ups, and community gatherings". [25]

Personal life

In June 2022, Holmes came out as gay in an interview with the Sunday Mirror , adding that she felt "finally free". [26] She said that she had known she was a lesbian since 1988, when she was in the army; she could not come out then as it was illegal at the time to be gay in the military. After winning two Olympic gold medals at Athens in 2004 and becoming a public figure, she feared there may still be consequences from the army if she came out after leaving, and that she may be shunned within athletics as there were no openly gay sportspeople she knew of. LGBT campaigners celebrated Holmes coming out, saying that it sheds light on the historic homophobia that can still serve as a barrier to older people coming out. [27]

Later that month, on 26 June, ITV broadcast a 55-minute documentary Kelly Holmes: Being Me in which she describes her fears of her sexuality being exposed, and meets two people who were discharged from the military for being gay. [28] Holmes wrote: "The documentary taught me so much about generational and social advancements when it comes to the LGBTQ+ world." [29]

Artistic recognition

In 2012, Holmes was one of five Olympians chosen for a series of body-casting artworks by Louise Giblin, exhibited in London with copies being sold in aid of the charity Headfirst. [30]

In 2017 a statue of Holmes by sculptor Guy Portelli was erected in Tonbridge.[ citation needed ]

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