Kelly Edwards

{{Infobox judoka

| name = Kelly Edwards

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| nationality = British

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|01|09|df=y}}

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| country = Great Britain

| weight_class = {{nbnd}}48 kg, {{nbnd}}52 kg

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| worlds_rank = R16

| worlds_year = 2010

| worlds_weight = Women's 48 kg

| regionals_type = EU

| regionals_rank = 7

| regionals_year = 2010

| regionals_weight = Women's 48 kg

| nationals =

| olympics_rank = R16

| olympics_year = 2012

| olympics_weight = Women's 48 kg

| commonwealth_rank = 2

| commonwealth_year = 2014

| commonwealth_weight = Women's 52 kg

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{{Medal|Country| {{GBR2}} }}

{{Medal|B| 2016 Abu Dhabi | {{nbnd}}52 kg }}

{{Medal|B| 2016 Zagreb | {{nbnd}}52 kg }}

{{Medal|B| 2008 Warsaw | {{nbnd}}48 kg }}

{{Medal|Country| {{ENG}} }}

{{Medal|S| 2014 Glasgow | {{nbnd}}52 kg }}

| updated = 25 November 2022

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Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991){{cite web|title=Kelly Edwards|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/Team-GB/competitors/9424239/Kelly-Edwards-Team-GB-London-2012-Olympics.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729075715/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/Team-GB/competitors/9424239/Kelly-Edwards-Team-GB-London-2012-Olympics.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 29, 2012|publisher=Daily Telegraph |accessdate=23 June 2016}} is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.{{cite web|url=https://www.judoinside.com/judoka/39340/Kelly_Edwards/judo-career|title=Kelly Edwards profile |website=Judo Inside |access-date=20 August 2022}}{{cite Sports-Reference}}

Judo career

Edwards came to prominence in 2007 after she became champion of Great Britain, winning the extra-lightweight division at the British Judo Championships.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishjudo.org.uk/my-judo/competition-organisation/results/|title=British Judo Championship Results 2003 to present |website=British Judo |access-date=20 August 2022}}

Her Great British international debut came in 2010 in Vienna, where she took seventh place in the European Judo Championships, aged only 19.{{cite web|title=Kelly Edwards - Athlete profile |url=http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/kelly-edwards-athlete-profile |publisher=www.britishjudo.org.uk |accessdate=8 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924081547/http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/kelly-edwards-athlete-profile |archivedate=September 24, 2012 }} 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.

In 2012, she again won gold in the British Open European Cup in Crawley.{{cite web|title=European Cup Malaga, 2011, Spain|url=http://www.judoinside.com/event/view/7318/european_cup_malaga_2011/|publisher=www.judoinside.com|accessdate=8 July 2012}}{{cite web|title=Britain's judokas win four more European Cup golds|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18052999|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=8 July 2012}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/Team-GB/competitors/9424239/Kelly-Edwards-Team-GB-London-2012-Olympics.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729075715/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/Team-GB/competitors/9424239/Kelly-Edwards-Team-GB-London-2012-Olympics.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 29, 2012|title=Kelly Edwards : Team GB London 2012 Olympics|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=6 October 2015}}

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{{cite web|title=Sisters Kimberley and Louise Renicks start Scotland gold rush in judo|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jul/24/sisters-kimberley-louise-renicks-win-first-scotland-golds-judo-commonwealth-games-glasgow-2014|accessdate=9 August 2014}} 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.

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|+World Cup Results Table{{Cite web|url=https://www.judoinside.com/judoka/39340/Kelly_Edwards/judo-results|title=Kelly Edwards, Judoka, JudoInside|website=www.judoinside.com|access-date=2019-06-27}}

!Date

!Result

!Judo Event

19 October 2013

|European Open Rome

27 September 2014

|European Open Tallinn

4 October 2014

|European Open Glasgow

8 November 2014

|African Open Port Louis

14 November 2014