Tokyo Olympics Gold Medalist Abe Uta Plans Marriage With Popular Hair Stylist

In front of her boyfriend, the heroine of the judo world flashed a smile that she never shows on the tatami mats.

Around noon on December 4, 2023, a luxury car pulled up in front of an apartment building in a quiet residential area. Soon after, a petite woman emerged from the condominium. She is Abe Uta, 23, who won the gold medal in the women’s 52kg judo event at the Tokyo Olympics.

 

“Abe is a leader of the Japanese judo world. It was the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 that made her famous. She and her brother Hifumi (26) became the first siblings in history to win the championship on the same day, and were awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon. She is also known as “the cutest judoka in Japan” for her innocent smile and has over 300,000 followers on Instagram. She is a star of the judo world, both in name and reality,” said an official of the All Japan Judo Federation.

Abe participated in the “Grand Slam Tokyo” on December 3, 2023. In the final, she won by ippon with a kouchigari (a small gari), and again her siblings won the tournament together. The day after the accomplishment, Poetry went to morning training as usual. When she returned home before noon, she got into the passenger seat of a luxury car that had come to pick her up.

 

The car carrying Abe headed for a neighborhood doughnut store. Thinking that perhaps his brother was driving and they were celebrating his accomplishment, it was not Kazumi who got out of the driver’s seat, but a wild man resembling Takayuki Yamada.

After purchasing doughnuts, the two drove on to the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway, where they stopped at a parking area and entered a souvenir store after about two hours. As they picked up the items in the store, Abe smiled happily. The two of them were snuggled up to each other, and their closeness was evident. They got into the car again and disappeared in the direction of Ibaraki.