Defending Olympic champion Ueno Masae, Japan's most elite judoka, threw Cuba's Anaysi Hernandez for an ippon in just six seconds to claim her second consecutive Olympic gold. Ueno was a dominant judoka in the Women's -70kg category and won gold at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships, 2006 Doha Asian Games and 2008 Asian Championships in Jeju.
"Winning the Gold medal is not only for me, it is also for the people that support me," said Ueno. On tactics she used to win, she added: "I was thinking to use leg techniques so that the result became like this."
Athens bronze medalist Annett Boehm of Germany lost by a yuko to Ronda Rousey from the United States in the first bronze medal match. Rousey, competing in the Olympics for the second time, placed ninth in the -63kg division in Athens four years ago. The Dutch judoka Edith Bosch, silver medalist in -73kg in Athens, took the second bronze medal by defeating Leire Iglesias of Spain with an ippon.
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