is a 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 Gévrise Émane.

Yoshie Ueno

Her elder sister is Masae Ueno, who retired in 2009 after winning gold at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. In 2012 Summer Olympics Ueno won a brone medals after losing in the quarter-finals to South Korean eighth seed Joung Da-Woon.

Yoshie Ueno

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Japanese female judoka

1983 births

Living people

Asian Games medalists in judo

Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Olympic medalists in judo

Olympic judoka for Japan

Olympic bronze medalists for Japan

Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Judoka at the 2010 Asian Games

Asian Games gold medalists for Japan

Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games

21st-century Japanese women

Yoshie Ueno