Yoshie Ueno

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Yoshie Ueno
Medal record
Competitor for  Japan
Women's Judo
Olympic Games
Bronze 2012 London -63 kg
World Championships
Gold 2009 Rotterdam -63 kg
Gold 2010 Tokyo -63 kg
Silver 2011 Paris -63 kg
Asian Games
Gold 2010 Guangzhou -63 kg
Asian Championships
Gold 2003 Jeju -63 kg
Gold 2005 Tashkent -63 kg
Gold 2007 Kuwait City -63 kg

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

She 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 Gevrise Emane.

Her elder sister is Masae Ueno, who retired in 2009 after winning gold at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.[1] In Summer Olympics 2012, Yoshie Ueno lost in the quarter-finals to South Korean eighth seed Joung Da-Woon.[2]

References

  1. Judo: Sister effort brings world judo gold double for Ueno
  2. "Japanese top seed Ueno crashes out of Olympics". Retrieved 2012-07-31. 

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