Yves-Matthieu Dafreville (born 17 March 1982 in

Saint-Pierre, Réunion Saint-Pierre (; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, Sin-Pyè) is the third-largest commune in the French overseas department and region of Réunion. Located on the southwest side of the island, it is the capital of the French Southern and Antarctic ...

) is a French

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, who played for the middleweight category. He is also a member of the Levallois Sporting Club in

Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some from the centre of Paris in the north-western suburbs of the French capital. It is the most densely populated ...

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, and is coached and trained by Patrick Rosso and Stéphane Fremont. Dafreville represented

at the

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, where he competed for the men's middleweight class (90 kg). He defeated Cuba's

Asley González Asley González (born 5 September 1989 in Caibarién) is a Cuban judoka. He won the 2013 World Championship in the −90 kg event. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the Men's 90 kg competition. Career At the 200 ...

, Italy's

Roberto Meloni Roberto Meloni (born 20 February 1981 in Rome) is an Italian judoka. Height 1.79m, weight 90 kg Achievements External links * * 1981 births Living people Italian male judoka Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Judoka at ...

, and Brazil's Eduardo Santos in the preliminaries, before losing out the semi-final match, with an

ippon is the highest score a fighter can achieve in a Japanese martial arts ''ippon-wazari'' contest, usually kendo, judo, karate or jujitsu. In Judo In Judo, an ippon may be scored for a throw, a pin, a choke or a jointlock. For throws, the four ...

and a

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(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 Hesham Mesbah ( ar, هشام مصباح; born 17 March 1982) is an Egyptian judoka. He won a bronze medal in the Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 90 kg, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Egypt's first judo medal in 24 years. Achieveme ...

, who successfully scored an ippon and a

Te Guruma is a throwing technique described in ''The Canon Of Judo'' as a reference technique and demonstrated by Kyuzo Mifune in the video ''The Essence of Judo''. It is currently illegal in competition as of the 2011 IJF rule changes. Included syste ...

(variation of

Sukui Nage is one of the original 40 Throw (grappling), throws of Judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the fourth group, Judo Lists#Yonkyo, Yonkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of Kodokan Judo. It is also part of the current ...

), at one minute and twenty-nine seconds.

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1982 births Living people People from Saint-Pierre, Réunion French male judoka Olympic judoka of France Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Réunion 21st-century French people {{France-judo-bio-stub