Kelly Edwards (born 9 January 1991) is a British

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from

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Judo career

Edwards came to prominence in 2007 after she became champion of Great Britain, winning the extra-lightweight division at the

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. Her Great British international debut came in 2010 in

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, where she took seventh place in the

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, aged only 19. In 2011, Edwards won

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in the European Cup in

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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

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. In June 2012, Edwards was chosen to represent Great Britain in the

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in London in the under 48 kg event, she was eliminated by

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. In 2013, she won her third British title at the heavier weight of half-lightweight before representing England at the 2014

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, 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 2015, she won her fourth and last British title.

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