Kelly Holmes

Dame Kelly Holmes is a retired British middle distance athlete and television personality who won both the 800 and the 1500 metres at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Born in Pembury in Kent, she began competing as a youth, joined the British Army and turned to the professional circuit in 1993. She won the 1500 metres at the 1994 and 2002 Commonwealth Games, took silver and bronze medals at the 1995 World Championships, and was a silver medallist in the 1500 metres at the 2003 World Indoor Championships and in the 800 metres at the 2003 World Championships. She still holds British records over 600 and 1000 metres and was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005, the year she retired.