Kelly Morgan


Kelly Ann Aston is a Welsh badminton player. She has represented Wales and Great Britain in regional and international competitions, including the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, winning gold in the 1998 Commonwealth Games,and beat world number one Ye Zhaoying of China in the 1999 IBF World Championships.
Aston won 13 consecutive Women's Singles titles at the Welsh National Badminton Championships between 1992 and 2004, as well as six Women's Doubles and 4 Mixed Doubles titles. In 1998, she received a gold medal representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games, won silver at the 1998 European Badminton Championships, and bronze at the 2000 European Badminton Championships. She also represented Great Britain at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.
Aston began playing badminton at age nine. Her brother, Ross, was initially trying for the Welsh national team, and she only made the team as a result of accompanying him to the trials.
In 1999, Aston was voted Welsh Woman of the Year, and in 2002 she was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours List for "services to the community, especially through Sport, in South Wales".
Aston was born in Pontypridd and attended Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive School. She married her husband, Dylan Aston, in 2002, and has two children, Ethan and Ellen. is a teacher at the GEMS Wellington Academy-Al Khail in Dubai. She has also been heavily involved in charity work, particularly relating to Down Syndrome, and was the patron of the Down's Syndrome Association of Wales.

Achievements

IBF World Grand Prix

Women's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2003US Open Lee Eun-woo13–10, 7–11, 11–5 Winner

YearEventCompetitionRepresentingPositionPartner
1992Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1992Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Doubles1stRachael Phipps
1993Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1994Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1994Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Doubles1stRachael Phipps
1995Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1996Olympic GamesWomen's Singles9th
1996Olympic GamesWomen's Doubles17thJoanne Muggeridge
1996Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1996Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Doubles1stRacheael Phipps
1996Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsMixed Doubles1stRichard Vaughan
1997Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1997Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Doubles1stRacheael Phipps
1997Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsMixed Doubles1stRichard Vaughan
1998Commonwealth GamesWomen's Singles1st
1998European Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's singles2nd
1998Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1998Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Doubles1stGail Osbourne
1998Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsMixed Doubles1stJohn Leung
1999Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
1999Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Doubles1stRachelle Edwards or Rachelle Morgan
1999Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsMixed Doubles1stRichard Vaughan
2000Olympic GamesWomen's Singles9th
2000European Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles3rd
2000Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
2000Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsMixed Doubles1stRichard Vaughan
2001Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
2002Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
2003Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st
2004Olympic GamesWomen's Singles9th
2004Welsh National Badminton ChampionshipsWomen's Singles1st