Shohei Ono will grapple for his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men's 73-kg division, this time on home soil, after being named to Japan's judo team for this summer's Tokyo Games on Thursday. The All Japan Judo Federation selected 12 of its 14-member ...
Japan won three gold medals Friday on the opening day of the Dusseldorf Grand Slam, with siblings Uta and Hifumi Abe both topping the podium. Nineteen-year-old sensation Uta claimed the women's 52-kg division gold with victory over French rival Amandine Buchard, while 22-year-old Hifumi won ...
Forecasting Japan's top medal hopefuls for 2020 Games
Japan's Olympians intend to take the nation by storm with their best-ever results at the 2020 Tokyo Games this summer. The Japanese Olympic Committee has hammered out a goal of 30 gold medals, nearly doubling its previous record, at the world's biggest sporting extravaganza. The ...
Uta Abe, Joshiro Maruyama miss chance to secure Olympic spots
Reigning world champions Uta Abe and Joshiro Maruyama missed their chance to become the first Japanese judoka to secure a spot at next summer's Tokyo Olympics after losing in the finals at the Osaka Grand Slam on Friday. Abe lost to France’s Amandine Buchard in ...
Uta Abe defends women's 52-kg title at judo worlds, defeats Russia's Natalia Kuziutina
Japan's Uta Abe defended her title in the women's 52-kg division at the judo world championships on Monday. Joshiro Maruyama won the men's 66-kg class in his world championship debut on the second day of the weeklong tournament. He defeated Abe's brother and two-time defending ...
World champ Uta Abe to miss Ekaterinburg Grand Slam with shoulder injury
Teenage world champion Uta Abe has withdrawn from the upcoming Ekaterinburg Grand Slam in Russia due to a left shoulder injury, the All Japan Judo Federation announced Tuesday. The 18-year-old judoka, who holds the women's 52-kg world title, suffered the injury during practice on Feb. ...
Abe siblings capture gold medals on same day at world championships
Uta Abe won her first World Judo Championships gold medal on Friday, while her brother Hifumi defended his men's under-66 kg title. Abe beat compatriot and defending champion Ai Shishime in the women's under-52 kg final. Abe won all five of her matches at the ...
Hifumi Abe defended his men's 66-kg division title at Grand Slam Tokyo on Saturday while his sister Uta earned her first career Grand Slam gold medal. Japan won gold in all seven divisions held on the first day of the two-day meet at Tokyo Metropolitan ...
Sixteen-year-old Uta Abe became the youngest judoka in history to earn a Grand Prix title when she won the women's 52-kg division Friday. According to the International Judo Federation, Abe, who is a first-year student at Shukugawa Gakuin High School in Kobe, is also the ...
