Keely Small

{{short description|Australian middle-distance runner}}

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{{Medal|Sport| Women's middle-distance running }}

{{Medal|Country| {{AUS}} }}

{{Medal|Competition| Summer Youth Olympics }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2018 Buenos Aires | 800 m }}

{{Medal|Competition| Pacific Games }}

{{Medal|Gold| 2019 Samoa | 800 m }}

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Keely Small (born 9 June 2001) is an Australian middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the women's 800 metres event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and at the 2019 Pacific Games.

Career

Small competed in the women's 800 metres event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.{{Cite news|last=Mackay|first=Duncan|date=1 October 2018|title=Australia choose Small to carry flag at Buenos Aires 2018 Opening Ceremony to continue family tradition|work=InsideTheGames.biz|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1070612/australia-choose-small-to-carry-flag-at-buenos-aires-2018-opening-ceremony-to-continue-family-tradition|access-date=22 May 2020}} In this event she did not advance to compete in the final. Later that year, she won the gold medal in the girls' 800 metres event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.{{Cite news|date=23 April 2020|title=Keely Small's big Tokyo ambition|work=Olympic News|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/keely-small-s-big-tokyo-ambition|access-date=22 May 2020}} Small was also her country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

In 2019, at the Pacific Games held in Samoa, she won the gold medal in the women's 800 metres event.{{Cite web|title=Women's 800 metres|url=http://liveresults.qldathletics.org.au/oceania/2019/2019-PacificGames/190715F013.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721073359/http://liveresults.qldathletics.org.au/oceania/2019/2019-PacificGames/190715F013.htm|archive-date=21 July 2019|access-date=5 July 2020|website=2019 Pacific Games}}

Personal life

Alpine skier Greta Small is her cousin. Greta carried the Australian flag during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria.

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