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Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 9 January 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | –48 kg, –52 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic Games | R16 (2012) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Champ. | R16 (2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
European Champ. | 7th (2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commonwealth Games | (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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JudoInside.com | 39340 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Updated on 25 November 2022 |
Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991)[1] is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.[2][3]
Edwards came to prominence in 2007 after she became champion of Great Britain, winning the extra-lightweight division at the British Judo Championships.[4]
Her Great British international debut came in 2010 in Vienna, where she took seventh place in the European Judo Championships, aged only 19.[5] In 2011, Edwards won gold in the European Cup in Málaga in the under 48kg class and also won her second British title at extra-lightweight.[4]
In 2012, she again won gold in the British Open European Cup in Crawley.[6][7] In June 2012, Edwards was chosen to represent Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the under 48 kg event, she was eliminated by Tomoko Fukumi.[8]
In 2013, she won her third British title at the heavier weight of half-lightweight before representing England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, in the under 52kg class, where she won the silver medal, losing in the final to Louise Renicks[9] on an indirect hansoku-make (for a fourth and final shido penalty) with 3 seconds remaining on the clock.
In 2015, she won her fourth and last British title.[4]
Date | Result | Judo Event |
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19 October 2013 | 3 | European Open Rome |
27 September 2014 | 7 | European Open Tallinn |
4 October 2014 | 5 | European Open Glasgow |
8 November 2014 | 3 | African Open Port Louis |
14 November 2014 | 2 | Oceania Open Wollongong |
17 January 2015 | 7 | African Open Tunis |
14 March 2015 | 3 | African Open Casablanca |
10 September 2016 | 3 | European Open Tallinn |
15 October 2016 | 1 | European Open Glasgow |
4 February 2017 | 7 | European Open Sofia |