Chelsea Edghill to participate in Finland Open Table Tennis Championships

Dec 06, 2019 Sports

Journey Part of Olympic Qualification Preparation

Chelsea Edghill, current national sports woman, national table tennis player and Olympic prospect as part of her Olympic Qualification preparation will be participating in the Finland Open Table Tennis Championships.
The championships which is ITTF sanctioned world circuit event is scheduled for the 5th

Chelsea Edghill, current national sports woman.

to 9th December 2019 and will see many players from Europe participating.
Coming off her recent qualification and participation in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima Peru, Edghill is seeking to qualify for the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
She is travelling with Coach Tony Rato of Portugal and will compete in women singles event and arrived yesterday in Helsinki for the championships.
This represents the first time a player from Guyana will be participating in a Senior World circuit event.
Following her participation in the Finland, Edghill will then travel to Romania to train and play in competition before returning to Portugal to prepare for other key engagements.
This tournament is also geared towards assessing the progress made in the implementation of several new elements of her game in high level competitive environment and picking up valuable ranking points.
Part of her identified road map for Olympic training and possible qualification based upon a limited budget entails participation in the German and Portugal Open, continued training in Portugal, training in China, participation in the Caribbean Championships leading up the continental qualification event to Tokyo 2020 which entails competition in Teams Singles and Mixed qualification and is scheduled for April 2020.
Edghill, a former junior Olympian, and recent graduate from the Lindenwood University with a Degree in chemistry, has an extensive resume with several junior sports women title, national champion, Caribbean women under-21 champion 2018, Caribbean women’s doubles champion, Caribbean women’s bronze medalist 2019, several collegiate tournament wins, Caribbean Cadet and junior champion, Caribbean women’s team silver medalist 2018/2019 and is currently training and playing competition in Portugal under the tutelage and guidance of coach Tony Rato. He is Portugal’s Junior Coach and is a member of the Lusitania de Lourosa table tennis Club Portugal.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association would like to extend thanks to the Guyana Olympic Association for assisting Chelsea in her quest for possible Olympic qualification.