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Uta Abe

Uta Abe

Japanese judoka Abe Uta became Olympic Champion at Tokyo 2020. She is five time world champion of 2025. 2023. 2022. 2019 and 2018 most of the time at the same day as her brother Hifumi Abe. Abe was Junior World Champion in 2017. She won the Grand Slams of Japan four times. Paris. Düsselsdorf. Tashkent and Kazan. In 2017 she won in Düsseldorf in 2017 as youngest ever winner of a IJF World Tour event. She won the World Junior Mixed Team Championships in 2017. World Mixed team gold in Tokyo in 2019. She triumphed at the Grand Slam in Antalya in 2024. Won the 2025 Grand Slam of Baku.


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