The siblings Uta and Hifumi Abe brought Japan Olympic double gold in judo.
On Sunday, 21-year-old Uta Abe won the Olympic gold medal in the class up to 52 kilograms in the venerable Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, a little later her two-year-old brother Hifumi triumphed in the up to 66 kilogram category.
For the team of the Olympic host, it was already the gold medals number four and five at the home games.
With a total of 42 Olympic gold medals, Japan is by far the most successful nation in judo.
The Abe siblings are among the stars on Japan's team.
At the 2018 World Championships in Baku, both had won the title on the same day.
“I couldn't have made it this far without my older brother.
I don't even know whether I would have learned Judo at all without him ”, Uta Abe had said before the summer games.
The younger sister started judo when she was five, inspired by her big brother.
Like Hifumi, she fights quickly and aggressively, chasing for victory with a style that is "about 70 percent influenced by my brother".
In her Olympic final she defeated the French world number two Amandine Buchard in extra time through Ippon.
Hifumi Abe had only secured the last place in Japan's judo team for the Olympics at the last minute.
In his final battle he won against the Georgian Wascha Margwelaschwili by Waza-ari.
No success for German starters
For the German starters there have only been defeats in Tokyo.
Sebastian Seidl from Abensberg lost his duel in the weight class up to 66 kilograms with the Russian Jakub Schamilow on Sunday due to penalties in extra time.
The 31-year-old was punished with a third Shido and thus disqualified.
The day before, Katharina Menz and Moritz Plafky also failed at the start.
The trio was not among the contenders for a medal.