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Uta Abe

Uta Abe

Japanese judoka Uta Abe became Olympic champion at Tokyo 2020. She is a six-time world champion, winning in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, most of the time on the same day as her brother Hifumi Abe, as again at the World Championships in Baku in 2026. Abe was junior world champion in 2017.

She won the Grand Slam of Japan four times and added Grand Slam titles in Paris, Düsseldorf, Tashkent, Kazan and Ulaanbaatar. Her win in Düsseldorf in 2017 made her the youngest ever winner of an IJF World Tour event. She won the World Junior Mixed Team Championships in 2017 and World Mixed Team gold in Tokyo in 2019, triumphed at the Grand Slam in Antalya in 2024 and won the Grand Slam in Baku in 2025.


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