Dame Kelly Holmes is one of Britain's most recognisable and admired athletes. She has won Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European medals and added the ultimate sporting trophy to her cabinet at the Athens Olympic Games - Double Olympic Gold. Kelly, however is not only known for her medals and records, but is known for her gutsy, committed approach to her athletics and her ability to overcome injury and illness and still stay at the top of her discipline.

"Kelly has become an icon of British athletics"

In detail

Kelly started her athletics career as a promising athlete when a junior and won the 1,500m at the English Schools Championships, but chose to give up her early athletics career in favour of a career in the army. In 1997 after nine and a half years she took a massive step and left the army and made athletics her focus and career. She was awarded the MBE in 1998 for services to the British Army and was honoured by the Queen in the 2005 New Year's honours with a Dame Hood. Kelly retired from competition in 2005.

What she offers you

In her presentations Kelly opens up about her courageous life growing up as a mixed-race child, a woman in the Army and her controversial move to the track. She offers audiences great insights in to what it really takes to become a champion and how we can apply the lessons she learned on the track to our own personal and business lives. She was in Bejing during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games working for the BBC.

How she presents

An inspiring speaker, Kelly's presentations are a roller coaster ride of triumph over adversity with a great mix of amusing anecdotes from the world of professional athletics and motivational stories.

Languages

She presents in English.

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