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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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| IJF | 2718 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 |
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