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Medal record Women's Judo Competitor for Japan Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens -70 kg Gold 2008 Beijing -70 kg World Championships Gold 2001 Munich -70 kg Gold 2003 Osaka -70 kg Asian Games Gold 2006 Doha -70 kg Bronze 2002 Busan -70 kg Asian Championships Gold 2000 Osaka -70 kg Gold 2004 Almaty -70 kg Gold 2008 Jeju -70 kg Masae Ueno (上野 雅恵 Ueno Masae , born January 17, 1979) is a Japanese female judoka who competed in the Athens 2004 Olympics and the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Ueno was born January 17, 1979 in Asahikawa Hokkaidō. In 2004, she earned Japan's fifth Olympic Gold Medal in ten events, taking the 70 kg women's judo event. She also won the Olympic Gold Medal in 2008.
Her younger sisters, Yoshie is World champion in 2009 and Tomoe is World junior champion in 2006.
References
External links
- Video footage of Masae Ueno (judovision.org)
- List of Olympic medalists in judo
Categories:- Japanese judoka
- Olympic judoka of Japan
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Japan
- People from Asahikawa
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in judo
- Asian Games medalists in judo
- Japanese martial arts biography stubs
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