Matthew Jago

Olympic judoka

Born

12 January 1987, Johannesburg

Citizenship

South Africa

Sport

judo

Occupation

judoka

Matthew Etan Jago (born 12 January 1987 in Johannesburg) is a South African judoka, who played for the half-middleweight category. He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, and silver at the 2008 African Judo Championships in Agadir, Morocco, losing out to Morocco's Safouane Attaf. He won a total of judo Sa Championship 12 gold medals.

Jago represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's half-middleweight class (81 kg). He received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out by a waza-ari (half-point) and a seoi-nage (shoulder throw) to Poland's Robert Krawczyk.

Competitions

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q6790734 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.