Yves-Matthieu Dafreville

Yves-Matthieu Dafreville (born 17 March 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.

Born (1982-03-17) 17 March 1982 (age 44)

Saint-Pierre, Réunion

OccupationJudoka

Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)

CountryFrance

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Yves-Matthieu Dafreville

Yves Matthieu Dafreville-2011
Personal information
Born	(1982-03-17) 17 March 1982 (age 44) Saint-Pierre, Réunion
Occupation	Judoka
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sport
Country	France
Sport	Judo
Weight class	‍–‍90 kg
Club	Levallois SC
Coached by	Patrick Rosso Stéphane Fremont
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games	5th (2008)
World Champ.	9th (2007)
European Champ.	7th (2008)
Medal record Men's judo Representing  France IJF Grand Slam 2009 Paris ‍–‍90 kg IJF Grand Prix 2009 Hamburg ‍–‍90 kg 2012 Düsseldorf ‍–‍90 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF	4013
JudoInside.com	17770
Updated on 28 November 2022

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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 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]