www.judoinside.com 05/12
Uta Abe on top of the mountain in Tokyo for the fourth time
Once again, at the Tokyo Grand Slam 2023, none of her opponents of Uta Abe could become the immovable object and inflict a rare defeat, as she breezed through to the final of her home grand slam for the 6th time in as many tries. Having not lost a match on the IJF World Tour since the Osaka Grand Slam 2019, Uta Abe will forever carry the weight of expectation of the judo world, for the remainder of her career, but you wouldn’t know it. The 4-time world champion and current Olympic champion is an unstoppable force in her weight category and handles that expectation with ease.