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Yoko Tanabe (田辺 陽子, Tanabe Yōko; born 28 January 1966 in Tokyo) is a Japanese retired judoka. Tanabe won two Olympic silver medals in the half-heavyweight (‍–‍72 kg) division, in 1992 and 1996. She won the All-Japan judo championships six times (1987‍–‍1992). She also won a bronze medal in the ‍–‍72 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where women's judo was held as a demonstration sport.

Source: “Yoko Tanabe”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt