Kelly Edwards

Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1990)[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 London Olympics 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Kelly Edwards". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  2. ↑ "Kelly Edwards - Athlete profile". www.britishjudo.org.uk. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "European Cup Malaga, 2011, Spain". www.judoinside.com. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "Britain's judokas win four more European Cup golds". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  5. ↑ "Kelly Edwards : Team GB London 2012 Olympics". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sisters Kimberley and Louise Renicks start Scotland gold rush in judo". Retrieved 9 August 2014.


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