Kelly Edwards
Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991) 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. In 2011 Edwards won gold in the European Cup in Málaga in the under 48kg cl* and in 2012 again won gold in the same category in the British Open European Cup in Crawley. 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.
Kelly represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, in the under 52kg cl*, where she won the silver Medal, losing in the final to Louise Renicks on an indirect hansoku-make (for a fourth and final shido penalty) with 3 seconds remaining on the clock.
References
External links
- Kelly Edwards at the International Judo Federation
- Kelly Edwards at JudoInside.com
- Kelly Edwards at Olympedia
- Kelly Edwards at the British Olympic *ociation
- Kelly Edwards at the Commonwealth Games Federation