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Kelly Jade Sotherton (born 13 November , 1976 ) is a British Heptathlete . Sotherton was born at Newport on the Isle Of Wight . As a teenager, she played Netball for Hampshire , but also won two English Schools’ championships in the heptathlon. She moved to the Midlands in order to train with 2000 Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis . She made her senior British team debut in 2002. 2004 She gained international recognition in 2004 when she surprisingly won a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens behind Carolina Klüft (gold) and Austra Skujyte (silver), scoring 6424 points and finishing ahead of defending Olympic champion Lewis who dropped out due to injury. 2005 In March 2005 she competed in the European Indoor Championships where she took silver once again behind Klüft. Götzis , Austria in May saw Kelly once again beaten into second, behind the Swede, but she did record a personal best of 6547 points. At the AAA's National Championship in July, Kelly competed in four individual events and took her first senior national title in winning the Long Jump with a jump of 6.48 Metres . At the 2005 World Championships Kelly had held a medal position going into the sixth event, despite some below average performances, but a disastrous javelin saw her drop out of contention. Sotherton did fight back knocking nearly 2.5 seconds off her personal best to win the final 800 m but despite this closing the overall gap on those ahead she only finished fifth. 2006 In March 2006 she competed for England in the hepathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne . She took gold with a score of 6396, ahead of Kylie Wheeler of Australia (silver) and her team mate Jessica Ennis (bronze). ACHIEVEMENTS
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