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Kelly Holmes
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British middle distance athlete and Olympic gold medallist
OverviewAI-generated
Kelly Holmes is a British middle-distance runner and member of the British Army. Born in Pembury in 1970, she represented the United Kingdom in athletics at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Holmes received the Member of the Order of the British Empire award and an honorary doctorate. She is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University and resides in Hildenborough.
In addition to her athletic career, Holmes has authored eleven works, including *My Olympic ten days*, *Happy You, Happy Family*, and *Kelly Holmes : Black, White and Gold*. Her physical attributes include a height of 163 and a mass of 55.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Happy You, Happy Family
- Unique
- Kelly Holmes - Signed
- Kelly Holmes : Black, White and Gold
- My Olympic ten days
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1969-02-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 6
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kelly+Holmes">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,259x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,887x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
- phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data
· 2013 · cited 20,034x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1970-04-19 ) 19 April 1970 (age 56) , Pembury , Kent, England
- Height
- 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
- Website
- kellyholmes .co .uk
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- British Army , Women's Royal Army Corps (1988–1992), Adjutant General's Corps (1992–1997)
- Service years
- 1988–1997
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Country
- Great Britain , England
- Sport
- Running
- Event s
- 800 metres , 1500 m
- Club
- Middlesex Ladies / ESM
- Personal bests
- 800 m : 1:56.21 ( Monaco 1995) 1500 m : 3:57.90 ( Athens 2004) Indoors 800 m : 1:59.21 Indoors</span>"}]]}'>i ( Ghent 2003)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kelly
- Family name
- Holmes
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Pembury
- Occupation
- middle-distance runner
- Educated at
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Participant in
- 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 55
- Military branch
- British Army
- Official website
- kellyholmes.co.uk
- Image
- Kelly Holmes at Athens 2004 cropped.jpg
- Height
- 163
- Residence
- Hildenborough
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Kelly Holmes
- date of birth
- 1970-04-19
- sports discipline competed in
- middle-distance running
- social media followers
- 140774
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Dame Kelly Holmes (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete and television personality.
Holmes specialised in the 800 and 1500 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 1000 metre distances. She held the British 800 metre record until 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kelly Holmes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.