is an amateur Japanese
Greco-Roman wrestler
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, who played for the men's light heavyweight category. He won a gold and a bronze medal for his division at the
2002 Asian Games
The 2002 Asian Games ( ko, 2002년 아시아 경기대회/2002년 아시안 게임, Icheoni-nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Icheoni-nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the XIV Asian Games ( ko, 제14회 아시아 경기대회/제14회 아시안 ...
in
Busan, South Korea
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, and at the
2006 Asian Games
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in
Doha, Qatar
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.
Matsumoto made his official debut for the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the
men's 84 kg class, against Sweden's
Ara Abrahamian
Ara Abrahamian ( hy , Արա Աբրահամյան; born 27 July 1975) is an Armenian-Swedish wrestler in Greco-Roman wrestling. He has won two World Championships in the 76 kg and 84 kg weight classes and a silver medal at the 2004 S ...
, Slovakia's
Attila Bátky
Attila Bátky (born 23 January 1973) is an amateur Slovak Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category. He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France, earning hi ...
, and Kyrgyzstan's Janarbek Kenjeev.
At the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, Matsumoto competed for the second time in the
men's 84 kg class, by receiving a qualifying place from the
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The men's tournament began in 1979 and The women's tournament was first staged in 1996, and it has been held every year. ...
in
Jeju City
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Located on an island off the Korean Peninsula, Jeju ...
,
South Korea
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. He lost the qualifying round match to Armenia's
Denis Forov
Denis Mikolayovich Forov ( hy, Դենիս Ֆորով, born 3 December 1984) is a retired Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was on the Ukrainian national wrestling team as a cadet and the Russian national wrestling team as a junior.
He became a J ...
, with a two-set technical score (2–4, 0–6), and a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile*
1978 births
Living people
People from Uwajima, Ehime
Olympic wrestlers for Japan
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Ehime Prefecture
Asian Games medalists in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 2002 Asian Games
Wrestlers at the 2006 Asian Games
Japanese male sport wrestlers
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
20th-century Japanese people
21st-century Japanese people
Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
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