Dame Kelly Holmes named top UK sportswoman
Published: 12:12, 03 December 2009
Updated: 12:12, 03 December 2009
Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes is Britain's favourite sportswoman.
That's according to a poll by the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation.
Dame Kelly, the 800 and 15-hundred metre champion from the Athens Olympics, beat world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe.
Olympic hurdle champion Sally Gunnell came in third.
- 1 - Dame Kelly Holmes
- 2 - Paula Radcliffe
- 3 - Sally Gunnell
- 4 - Jayne Torvill
- 5 - Ellen McArthur and Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson
- 7 - Denise Lewis
- 8 - Rebecca Adlington
- 9 - Tessa Sanderson
- 10 - Zara Phillips
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