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Full name | Matthew Etan Jago | |||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Johannesburg, South Africa | 12 January 1987|||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Judo | |||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 81 kg | |||||||||||||||||||
Club | Tatami Judo Club | |||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||||
World finals | 1 Gold and 1 Silver | |||||||||||||||||||
Regional finals | 2 Gold 3 silver | |||||||||||||||||||
National finals | 12 Gold | |||||||||||||||||||
Highest world ranking | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthew Etan Jago (born 12 January 1987 in Johannesburg) is a South African judoka, who played for the half-middleweight category. [1] He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, and silver at the 2008 African Judo Championships in Agadir, Morocco, losing out to Morocco's Safouane Attaf. [2] He won a total of judo Sa Championship 12 gold medals.
Jago represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's half-middleweight class (81 kg). He received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out by a waza-ari (half-point) and a seoi-nage (shoulder throw) to Poland's Robert Krawczyk. [3]
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