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Kelly Edwards
Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991)[1] is a British judoka from Telford, Shropshire.[2][3] Judo careerEdwards came to prominence in 2007 after she became champion of Great Britain, winning the extra-lightweight division at the British Judo Championships.[4] Her Great British international debut came in 2010 in Vienna, where she took seventh place in the European Judo Championships, aged only 19.[5] 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.[4] In 2012, she again won gold in the British Open European Cup in Crawley.[6][7] 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.[8] 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[9] 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.[4]
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