| Kelly Edwards | |
| Nationality: | British |
| Birth Date: | 9 January 1991 |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Weight Class: | 48 kg, 52 kg |
| 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 |
| Olympics Rank: | R16 |
| Olympics Year: | 2012 |
| Olympics Weight: | Women's 48 kg |
| Commonwealth Rank: | 2 |
| Commonwealth Year: | 2014 |
| Commonwealth Weight: | Women's 52 kg |
| Updated: | 25 November 2022 |
Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991)[1] is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.[2]
Edwards came to prominence in 2007 after she became champion of Great Britain, winning the extra-lightweight division at the British Judo Championships.[3]
Her Great British international debut came in 2010 in Vienna, where she took seventh place in the European Judo Championships, aged only 19.[4] 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.[3]
In 2012, she again won gold in the British Open European Cup in Crawley.[5] [6] 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.[7]
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[8] 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.[3]
| 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 |