Judo: Uta Abe rampages in comeback to win Tashkent Grand Slam title
March 6, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Uta Abe. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) Japan s Tokyo Olympic team member Uta Abe ended a 13-month layoff by winning the Tashkent Grand Slam s women s 52-kilogram division championship on Friday. Abe, who last competed in February 2020, won three-straight bouts by ippon starting from the second round, before her opponent in the final, Mongolia s Sosorbaram Lkhagvasuren, withdrew. Japan s Ryuju Nagayama won the men s 60-kg, defeating former world champion Yeldos Smetov of Kazakhstan in the final, while Natsumi Tsunoda was runner-up in the women s 48-kg, losing by ippon to former world champ Urantsetseg Munkhbat of Mongolia.
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Uta Abe (top) competes during the semifinals of the women s 52-kg division at the Tashkent Grand Slam on Friday. | KYODO
KYODO Mar 6, 2021
Tokyo Olympic team member Uta Abe ended a 13-month layoff by winning the Tashkent Grand Slam’s women’s 52-kg division championship on Friday.
Abe, who last competed in February 2020, won three-straight bouts by
ippon starting from the second round, before her opponent in the final, Mongolia’s Sosorbaram Lkhagvasuren, withdrew.