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Yoshie Ueno

Yoshie Ueno

Japanese judoka (born 1983)


Yoshie Ueno (上野 順恵, Ueno Yoshie, born 1 July 1983, in Asahikawa Hokkaidō) is a Japanese judoka.[1]

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Ueno won the gold medal in the Half-middleweight (63 kg) division at the 2009 World Judo Championships and in 2010. In 2011 she lost the final to local hero Gévrise Émane.

Ueno's elder sister is Masae Ueno, who retired in 2009 after winning gold at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.[2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics Ueno won a brone medal after losing in the quarter-finals to South Korean eighth seed Joung Da-Woon.[3]


References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yoshie Ueno". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  2. "Japanese top seed Ueno crashes out of Olympics". Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.

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