Paris 2024 Olympic Games – Judo – Men -66 kg Victory Ceremony – Champ-de-Mars Arena, Paris, France – July 28, 2024. Gold medalist Hifumi Abe of Japan celebrates on the podium.
8:24 JST, July 29, 2024
Japan’s Hifumi Abe won gold in the men’s 66 kilogram class on Sunday at the Olympic Games in Paris.
In his fight for the gold medal, the 26-year-old Abe defeated Brazilian Willian Lima.
The Abe siblings stood on the highest podiums at the Tokyo Olympics on the same day, July 25, 2021. But Abe’s younger sister Uta lost in the second round of the women’s 52-kilogram class on Sunday, dashing the siblings’ hopes of back-to-back gold medals.
