Last weekend in Japan, 18-yr-old Hifume Abe beats 3-time world champion Masashi Ebinuma at Japanese Olympic trials.
Hifume Abe won the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in 2014. Fought the World Junior Championships final in 2014. Won silver at the World Cadet Championships in Miami. Abe won the Grand Prix Tashkent in 2015. He won the Kodokan Cup in Chiba in 2014.
Even though Abe won the trials, Ebinuma was still selected for the Japan Olympic Judo team.
