Yves-Matthieu Dafreville

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Yves-Matthieu Dafreville
Personal information
Nationality France
Born (1982-03-17) 17 March 1982 (age 39)
Saint-Pierre, Réunion
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight81 kg (179 lb)
Sport
SportJudo
Event(s)90 kg
ClubLevallois SC
Coached byPatrick Rosso
Stéphane Fremont

Yves-Matthieu Dafreville (born March 17, 1982 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion) is a French judoka, who played for the middleweight category.[1] He is also a member of the Levallois Sporting Club in Levallois-Perret, France, and is coached and trained by Patrick Rosso and Stéphane Fremont.

Dafreville represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's middleweight class (90 kg). He defeated Cuba's Asley González, Italy's Roberto Meloni, and Brazil's Eduardo Santos in the preliminaries, before losing out the semi-final match, with an ippon and a kata guruma (shoulder wheel), to Algeria's Amar Benikhlef.[2] Because Benikhlef advanced further into the final match against Georgia's Irakli Tsirekidze, Dafreville automatically qualified for the bronze medal game, where he narrowly lost the medal to Egypt's Hesham Mesbah, who successfully scored an ippon and a Te Guruma (variation of Sukui Nage), at one minute and twenty-nine seconds.[3]

Achievements[]

Year Tournament Place Weight class
2008 European Championships 7th Middleweight (90 kg)

References[]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yves-Matthieu Dafreville". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Men's Middleweight (90kg/198 lbs) Final of Table B". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  3. ^ "Men's Middleweight (90kg/198 lbs) Bronze Medal Contest A". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 December 2012.

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