Chelsea Edghill

Chelsea Edghill (born July 6, 1997) is a Guyanese table tennis player who has competed at the Commonwealth Games and became the first player from Guyana to compete at the Olympic Games in Table Tennis.

Career[]

Edghill competes in the women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, and team table tennis events, and is ranked #49 as an individual.^[2] In the 2014 Youth Olympic Games she placed 25th in the women's singles; in the 2018 Latin American Table Tennis Championships she went out in the preliminary round, and made it to the first round of the 2019 Pan American Games.^[3] In 2018 she was the Caribbean Senior Championships Under 21 champion.^[4] As a team athlete, she competed at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.^[2]

In 2021, she became the first Guyanese Olympic table tennis competitor with her appearance at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, being entered as a wild card, the only female tennis player to do so.^[1] She was also one of the nation's flagbearers during the opening ceremony. After defeating her opponent in the preliminary round, she was knocked out in the first round.^[5]

She resides in Aveiro, Portugal, and at the club level competes with Lusitania de Lourosa in Santa Maria da Feira.^[3]

Personal life[]

Edghill's brother Kyle has also competed for Guyana in table tennis, and their mother has managed the Guyanese youth table tennis team.^[3] She attended Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.^[6]

References[]

Olympic Games
Preceded by Hannibal Gaskin	Flagbearer for  Guyana (with Andrew Fowler) Tokyo 2020	Succeeded by Incumbent