Japan’s Yoko Ono retires from judo

One of the best Japanese judokas Yoko Ono has decided to call it a career.

The 32-year-old three time World and Asian judo champion has amassed six IJF World Tour gold medals.

Ono began her international competition career at the 2011 Prague World Cup where she did not place. Her first major international victory came much later in 2016 at the Asian Championships in Tashkent.

Ono’s favorite throw is uchimata but she also has a very dynamic standing ippon-seoi-nage that would have made Toshihiko Koga proud.

Like most Japanese female players, she is excellent on the ground. She has a very distinctive osaekomi turnover that is a play on the standard hara-zutsumi technique that many Japanese female players like to do.

Source: www.judoinside.com

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