UENO Yuka

Date of Birth: 28 Nov 2001

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: BEPPU

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : TOKYO

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Fencing	Women's Foil Individual	6
	Women's Foil Team JPN Japan	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Green Piste	Women's Foil Individual Table of 32 #44 EGY MOHAMED NMOHAMED Nora 5 JPN UENO YUENO Yuka 15	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Green Piste	Women's Foil Individual Table of 16 #54 USA ROSS NROSS Nicole 9 JPN UENO YUENO Yuka 15	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Green Piste	Women's Foil Individual Quarterfinal 3 #59 USA KIEFER LKIEFER Lee 15 JPN UENO YUENO Yuka 11	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Women's Foil Team Quarterfinal 2 #2 JPN Japan 36 USA United States 45	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Women's Foil Team Classifications 5-8 #5 JPN Japan 45 EGY Egypt 27	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall B Yellow Piste	Women's Foil Team Placement 5-6 #10 JPN Japan 31 CAN Canada 45	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	1

World Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	6	-
2018	Wuxi, CHN	25	5

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	2	1
2018	Bangkok, THA	-	2

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019/2020	1 x 13th, 1 x 33rd	1 x 7th, 1 x 11th
2018/2019	1 x 14th, 1 x 25th, 1 x 49th	1 x 5th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 7th
2017/2018	1 x 27th	1 x 6th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual
2019/2020	1 x 8th
2018/2019	1 x 6th
2017/2018	1 x 16th
2016/2017	1 x 61st

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
5	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Tauberbischofsheim, GER
6	2018/2019	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Shanghai, CHN
6	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Algiers, ALG
6	2017/2018	Foil Team	World Cup	Tauberbischofsheim, GER
7	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Kazan, RUS
7	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
8	2019/2020	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Turin, ITA
11	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Cairo, EGY
11	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Katowice, POL
13	2019/2020	Foil Individual	World Cup	Cairo, EGY

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Torun, POL	3	2
2018	Verona, ITA	1	5

Watching baseball. (nishinippon.co.jp, 01 Jun 2020)

Occupation:

Chuo University, Tokyo, JPN

Languages spoken:

Chuo University [Tokyo, JPN]

Takashi Tomita [club], JPN; Yusuke Aoki [national], JPN

Right (fie.org, 26 May 2019)

Sporting relatives:

Her parents both competed in fencing at the National Sports Festival of Japan. Her older brother Yuto has competed in the sport at international level and represented Japan in fencing at the world junior championships in 2018 and 2019. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 May 2021; fie.org, 01 Jun 2021; nishinippon.co.jp, 01 Jun 2020; chunichi.co.jp, 01 Feb 2019; sanspo.com, 07 Dec 2018)

In January 2021 she was troubled by a sprain to her right ankle and shin splints in her left leg at the JOC Junior Olympic Cup in Japan. (hochi.news, 09 Jan 2021)

In summer 2019 she suffered an injury to her right leg that prevented her from training or competing for a month. (nishinippon.co.jp, 01 Jun 2020)

She began fencing at age six and took up the sport seriously during the second grade of primary school. (chunichi.co.jp, 01 Feb 2019)

Her parents both competed in the sport and she would often go to the training venue where her father coached. (chunichi.co.jp, 01 Feb 2019)

To win gold at the Olympic Games in 2020 and 2024. (nikkansports.com, 25 Apr 2021; tokyo2020.org, 08 Apr 2021; sports.yahoo.co.jp, 28 May 2019; chunichi.co.jp, 01 Feb 2019)

Winning gold in individual foil at the 2018 World Junior Championships in Verona, Italy. (sports.yahoo.co.jp, 28 May 2019)

Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani. (chunichi.co.jp, 01 Feb 2019)

Philosophy:

"The more difficulties you have, the more you need to stay calm." (chunichi.co.jp, 01 Feb 2019)

In 2019 she received the International Award at the Oita Godo Shinbun Sports Awards in Japan. (oita-press.co.jp, 08 Mar 2019)

She was presented with the New Face Award at the 2018 Japanese Olympic Committee [JOC] Sports Awards. (seisa.ed.jp, 01 Apr 2019)

General Interest

General
BROTHERLY INSPIRATION
She believes that training with her older brother Yuto from a young age is responsible for her attacking style. "It's often said that I fence like a man, because I'm good at attacking and defending using fast movements. It's my personality to move violently back and forth like a man. I hate to lose so much that I used to really fight against my brother and it's thanks to him that I've been able to fence as fast as a man. If I stop, I can never win, so I just want to move and confuse the other person." (tokyo2020.org, 08 Apr 2021; number.bunshun.jp, 28 Dec 2020; nishinippon.co.jp, 01 Jun 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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