Yoshie Ueno

Yoshie Ueno ( Japanese 上 野 順 恵 Ueno Yoshie ; born July 1, 1983 in Asahikawa ) is a Japanese judoka and two-time world champion. It occurs in the weight class up to 63 kilograms, the light middleweight.

Yoshie Ueno won her first World Cup tournament in Budapest in March 2002 ; six months later she became junior world champion. In 2003 she won the Asian Championships in Jeju, which she was able to defend in Tashkent in 2005 and in Kuwait in 2007. After losing to Ayumi Tanimoto in the final of the Japanese Championships in 2007 , she won ahead of Tanimoto a year later. Nonetheless, Tanimoto was preferred to the Olympic team and successfully defended her 2004 gold medal.

After Tanimoto had finished her career, Yoshie Ueno represented Japan at international championships from 2009. She won the World Judo Championships in Rotterdam in 2009 and in Tokyo in 2010 . Two months after the 2010 World Cup, she also won the Asian Games in Guangzhou. In April 2011, Yoshie Ueno finished third at the Asian Championships in Abu Dhabi. At the World Championships in Paris in August 2011, she reached the final, but lost to the French Gévrise Émane . At her first Olympic Games in London in 2012 , she reached third place.

Yoshie Ueno's older sister Masae Ueno was an Olympic middleweight champion in 2004 and 2008.

Web links

• Yoshie Ueno on Judoinside (English)