Matthew Jago
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| Full name | Matthew Etan Jago | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
12 January 1987 Johannesburg, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 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] 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]
References
- ↑ "Matthew Jago". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ Staff (14 July 2007). "SA swimmers dominate in Algeria". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ "Men's Half Middleweight (81kg/178 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
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