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Matthew Etan Jago | |
Fullname: | Matthew Etan Jago |
Birth Date: | 12 January 1987 |
Birth Place: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Weight: | 810NaN0 |
Sport: | Judo |
Event: | 81 kg |
Club: | Tatami Judo Club |
Worlds: | 1 Gold and 1 Silver |
Regionals: | 2 Gold 3 silver |
Nationals: | 12 Gold |
Highestranking: | 19 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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]