Career
In October 2000 Edmunds was knocked off his motorcycle whilst riding to work on the A4. His injuries were so severe that doctors considered amputating both of his legs and believed that he would never walk again. He spent three months with his legs in casts before beginning swimming again as part of his physiotherapy routine.
Because he had limited movement in his ankle joints he qualified as a disabled swimmer in the S10 category.
When Edmunds met the British Paralympic coach Billy Pye he decided to begin training for the 2004 Summer, but had to move to Swansea to make use of the High Performance Training Centre as Reading had no Olympic-size swimming pool. Edmunds made his first appearance at the in 2004.
He competed in two individual S10 classification freestyle events as well as the 4×100 m freestyle 34 pts relay team In the individual 100 m he was knocked out in the heats but he made the final of the 50 m finishing in sixth.
He made his second Paralympic appearance for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer, held in Beijing, China.
Edmunds raced in the same three events as in 2004 as well as the 4×100 m medley 34 pts relay team In the medley the Great Britain team made the final but finished fifth, 17 seconds behind the new world record time set by gold medallists Australia. In 2010 Edmunds was appointed to United Kingdom Anti-Doping"s newly formed Athlete"s Committee along with fellow Paralympian Helene Raynsford.
In 2013 he was reappointed to the Athletes Committee of United Kingdom Anti-Doping for a further three years.
In May 2012 it was announced that Edmunds had been selected as part of the ParalympicGB to compete at London 2012. Following on from the London 2012 Paralmpic Games, Edmunds announced that he was retiring from competitive swimming.
In early 2013 Edmunds was appointed chairman of The Swimming Competitors Association, and therefore also appointed to the executive board of Brirish Swimming as the Athletes Representative.