Chelsea Edghill (born July 6, 1997) is a Guyanese table tennis player who has competed at the

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

and became the first player from Guyana to compete at the

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in Table Tennis.

Career

Edghill competes in the women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, and team table tennis events, and is ranked #408 as an individual. In the

2014 Youth Olympic Games The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

she placed 25th in the women's singles; in the 2018 Latin American Table Tennis Championships she went out in the preliminary round, and made it to the first round of the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games (), officially the XVIII Pan American Games () and commonly known as Lima 2019, were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019, with preliminar ...

. In 2018 she was the Caribbean Senior Championships Under 21 champion. As a team athlete, she competed at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. In 2021, she became the first Guyanese Olympic table tennis competitor with her appearance at the

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, being entered as a wild card, the only female tennis player to do so. She was also one of the nation's flagbearers during the

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. After defeating her opponent in the preliminary round, she was knocked out in the first round. She resides in

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, and at the club level competes with Lusitania de Lourosa in

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. She graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edghill, Chelsea 1997 births Living people Guyanese female table tennis players Sportspeople from Georgetown, Guyana American people of Guyanese descent Table tennis players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Olympic table tennis players for Guyana Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2023 Pan American Games Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Guyanese sportswomen