Nationality France Event(s) 90 kg Name Yves-Matthieu Dafreville Weight 81 kg | Sport Judo Club Levallois SC Height 1.86 m Coached by Patrick Rosso | |
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Born 17 March 1982 (age 42) ( 1982-03-17 ) Saint-Pierre, Reunion Similar Alain Schmitt, David Larose, Bruno Carabetta | ||
Timur Bolat (KAZ) - Yves Matthieu Dafreville (FRA) [-90kg]
JUDO 2008 Olympics: Amar Benikhlef (ALG) Yves Matthieu Dafreville (FRA)
Yves-Matthieu Dafreville (born March 17, 1982 in Saint-Pierre, Reunion) is a French judoka, who played for the middleweight category. He is also a member of the Levallois Sporting Club in Levallois-Perret, France, and is coached and trained by Patrick Rosso and Stephane Fremont.
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- Timur Bolat KAZ Yves Matthieu Dafreville FRA 90kg
- JUDO 2008 Olympics Amar Benikhlef ALG Yves Matthieu Dafreville FRA
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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 Gonzalez, 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. 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 gatame (hand armlock), at one minute and twenty-nine seconds.