ABE Hifumi

Date of Birth: 9 Aug 1997

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: KOBE

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Men -66 kg	1
	Mixed Team JPN Japan	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -66 kg Elimination Round of 16 #14 JPN ABE HABE Hifumi 10 IPP FRA le BLOUCH Kle BLOUCH Kilian 0s2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -66 kg Quarterfinal #21 JPN ABE HABE Hifumi 1 WAZ MGL YONDONPERENLEI BYONDONPERENLEI Baskhuu 0s1	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -66 kg Semifinal of Table A #31 BRA CARGNIN DCARGNIN Daniel 0 JPN ABE HABE Hifumi 10 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Men -66 kg Final #37 JPN ABE HABE Hifumi 1 WAZ GEO MARGVELASHVILI VMARGVELASHVILI Vazha 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Quarterfinal #3 JPN Japan 4 GER Germany 2	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Semifinal of Table A #6 JPN Japan 4 ROC ROC 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Mixed Team Final #9 JPN Japan 1 FRA France 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	-66 kg
2014	Nanjing, CHN	1

World Championships

Year	Location	-66 kg
2019	Tokyo, JPN	3
2018	Baku, AZE	1
2017	Budapest, HUN	1

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-66 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	-66 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-66 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-
2018	-66 kg	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2017	-66 kg	2x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2018	-66 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2021	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Antalya, TUR
1	2020	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
1	2019	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
1	2018	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS
1	2017	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN
1	2017	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
2	2018	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Osaka, JPN
3	2018	-66 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
17	2019	-66 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA

Shopping. (nikkansports.com, 03 Dec 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Office Worker

Martial Arts - Nippon Sport Science University, Japan

Languages spoken:

Park 24 [Japan]

Satoru Ebinuma [club], JPN; Kosei Inoue [national], JPN

Sporting relatives:

His younger sister Uta Abe has represented Japan in judo, and won gold in the -52kg category at the world championships in 2018 and 2019. (asahi.com, 22 Nov 2019; nikkansports.com, 03 Dec 2017; SportsDeskOnline, 11 Nov 2020)

2014 for Japan (news-postseven.com, 22 Feb 2020; judo.or.jp, 22 Feb 2020)

He took up judo at age six at Hyogo Boys Kodamakai in Japan. (asahi.com, 18 Mar 2018; daily.co.jp, 31 Aug 2017)

He became interested in the sport after watching judokas on television. (asahi.com, 18 Mar 2018; daily.co.jp, 31 Aug 2017)

For both he and his sister Uta to win gold medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ytv-athlete.jp, 05 Jan 2020; tokyo2020.org, 14 Dec 2020)

Japanese judoka Tadahiro Nomura. (nikkansports.com, 03 Dec 2020)

Philosophy:

"Hard work can beat genius." (judo.park24.co.jp, 27 Mar 2020)

In 2019 he was given the Big Sports Special Award at the 53th Asahi TV Big Sports Awards in Japan. (Asahi TV, 15 Jan 2019)

In 2019 he received the Kobe Sports Special Award in Japan. (kobe-np.co.jp, 04 Jan 2019)

General Interest

Belt grade
Black belt - IV DAN (nikkansports.com, 03 Dec 2020)

Preferred techniques
Seoi-nage (nikkansports.com, 03 Dec 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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