Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991) is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.
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.
Her Great British international debut came 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 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. 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.
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 on an indirect hansoku-make (for a fourth and final shido penalty) with 3 seconds remaining on the clock.
In 2016, she won her fifth and last Senior British title.
+World Cup Results TableDateResultJudo Event19 October 20133European Open Rome27 September 20147European Open Tallinn4 October 20145European Open Glasgow8 November 20143African Open Port Louis14 November 20142Oceania Open Wollongong17 January 20157African Open Tunis14 March 20153African Open Casablanca10 September 20163European Open Tallinn15 October 20161European Open Glasgow4 February 20177European Open Sofia
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