Congratulations to Tsunoda for winning the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics! Recently, Tsunoda Natsumi has been doing great, winning gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Abe Uta was expected to win gold at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and back-to-back victories at the Paris Olympics, but she lost to world number one Diyora Kerdiyorova of Uzbekistan in the second round and was unable to win a medal. However, she performed well in the mixed team and won a silver medal. Tsunoda Natsumi wins by ippon against Abe Uta with the world's best Tomoe-nage (2018 All-Japan Judo Weight Class Championships) Women's 57kg class 2018/4/8 Fukuoka International Center ■Comments from when the video was uploaded (April 2018) Abe Uta, a third-year student (17 years old) at Shukugawa High School, was a rising star who had won consecutive championships at home and abroad and was expected to win big, but she lost by ippon to Tsunoda Natsumi, who she was weak at, in the semi-finals with Tomoe-nage. Tears of regret for not being selected as a representative for the World Championships were shed and she said with a trembling voice, "This was the first time I felt pressure and it was very tough. I still can't accept it." In the semi-finals, Natsumi Tsunoda defeated Abe with a Tomoe-nage throw, and in the finals, she defeated Shishime with a Tomoe-nage throw after entering the GS, winning her first championship at this tournament. "I hadn't been able to use the Tomoe-nage throw at all in practice, so I had put it away for a while, but I think it's my best technique after all," she commented. Since dropping from the 52kg class to the 48kg class in 2019, Tsunoda has continued to perform well. In May 2023, she won her third consecutive World Judo Championship. At the Paris Olympics in July 2014, she won the first and second rounds by ippon with an armbar, defeated Bukri with a Tomoe-nage throw in the quarter-finals, and had a hard time against Sweden's Tara Babulfat in the semi-finals, winning by disqualification after nearly seven minutes of fighting. In the final, she defeated 2024 World Judo Championship winner Baboodorji Basanhu with a waza-ari, becoming the oldest winner in history to win her first Olympic gold medal at the age of 31 years and 11 months. This medal was the 500th medal won by the Japanese team at the Summer Olympics (Wikipedia). ■Uta Abe (3rd year student at Shukugawa Gakuin High School): Won the Kodokan Cup in November 2017, the Judo Grand Slam Tokyo in December, and the Judo Grand Slam Paris in February 2018. #NatsumiTsunoda #Tomoenage #NatsumiTsunoda #TomoeNage #UtaAbe 2018 All Japan Judo Weight Class Championship Women's 57kg Class 2018/4/8 Fukuoka International Center [Uta Abe] Unexpectedly lost by ippon Women's 52kg Judo Natsumi's room / @tsunoda_natsumi