Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991)[1] is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.[2][3]
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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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| IJF | 2718 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 39340 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Judo career
editEdwards 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 |
References
edit- ^ "Kelly Edwards". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Kelly Edwards profile". Judo Inside. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kelly Edwards". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ a b c "British Judo Championship Results 2003 to present". British Judo. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ "Kelly Edwards - Athlete profile". www.britishjudo.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 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 29 July 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 27 June 2019.
External links
edit- Kelly Edwards at the International Judo Federation
- Kelly Edwards at JudoInside.com
- Kelly Edwards at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Kelly Edwards at Olympics.com
- Kelly Edwards at Olympedia
- Kelly Edwards at The-Sports.org
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