Kelly Sotherton MBE.

3x Olympic Medallist, Broadcaster & Coach.

Birth date: 13/11/1976 Born: Isle of Wight, UK Lives: Birmingham, UK

Records / Achievements • • 2004 & 2008 Heptathlon Bronze • 2006 Commonwealth Heptathlon Gold British Athletics Athletes Medallist & 2008 4x400m Bronze Medallist Commission Founder • • 2005 & 2007 Pentathlon Silver • 2007 & 2008 World Championship - IAAF Women’s Committee Medallist – European Indoor Heptathlon Bronze Medallist member Championships

Triple Olympic medallist, Kelly Sotherton, is one of the most influential and passionate female voices in British Sport.

In 2007, Kelly was a vocal critic of two of her rivals’ performances in the Olympics, but it was a further decade before she was vindicated and awarded two Bronze medals from Beijing, as a result of her rivals’ systematic cheating. Having achieved a further Bronze in Athens, alongside two World Championship medals in Osaka and Valencia to add to Commonwealth Gold, Kelly is now one of Britain’s most decorated and talented track and field athletes.

Determined to make a positive change, Kelly’s resolve led her to spearhead the creation of British Athletics’ Athletes Commission. Her advocacy of women’s sport and gender equity resulted in her election in 2015 onto the IAAF Women’s Committee and its Gender Leadership Taskforce and, in 2020, a place in the New Year’s Honours List.

Contact. On the track, Kelly has recently been appointed as Team Leader at England Athletics for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022. [email protected] She coaches the Men’s 1st team at Warwickshire Cricket Club, plus leads the athlete performance for Wasps Rugby Club, too.

020 7935 8000 Kelly often shares her forthright views in her opinion pieces for the i newspaper, as well as with stints on 5Live, Talksport and Channel 4. She’s also, arguably, Arsenal’s most vocal and expressive Gooner on Twitter!