Kelly Edwards
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 January 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | –52 kg | |||||||||||||||||||
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| IJF | 2718 | |||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 39340 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Updated on 14 December 2021. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991)[1] is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.
She represents Great Britain, with her debut coming in 2010 in Vienna, where she took seventh place in the European Judo Championships, aged only 19.[2] In 2011 Edwards won gold in the European Cup in Málaga in the under 48kg class and in 2012 again won gold in the same category in the British Open European Cup in Crawley.[3][4] In June 2012 Edwards was chosen to represent Great Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics (commonly known as London 2012) in the under 48 kg event.[5]
Kelly represented 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[6] on an indirect hansoku-make (for a fourth and final shido penalty) with 3 seconds remaining on the clock.
| 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 |
References[]
- ^ "Kelly Edwards". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Kelly Edwards - Athlete profile". www.britishjudo.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ "European Cup Malaga, 2011, Spain". www.judoinside.com. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ "Britain's judokas win four more European Cup golds". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ^ "Kelly Edwards : Team GB London 2012 Olympics". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ "Sisters Kimberley and Louise Renicks start Scotland gold rush in judo". Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^ "Kelly Edwards, Judoka, JudoInside". www.judoinside.com. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
External links[]
- Kelly Edwards at the International Judo Federation
- Kelly Edwards at JudoInside.com
- Kelly Edwards at the British Olympic Association
- Kelly Edwards at Olympedia
- Kelly Edwards at the Commonwealth Games Federation
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- 1990 births
- Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka of Great Britain
- People from Telford
- English female judoka
- Commonwealth Games medallists in judo
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Judoka at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- European Games competitors for Great Britain
- Judoka at the 2015 European Games
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