is an amateur Japanese

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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

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, and at the

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. Matsumoto made his official debut for the

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, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 84 kg class, against Sweden's

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, Slovakia's

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, and Kyrgyzstan's Janarbek Kenjeev. At the

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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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. He lost the qualifying round match to Armenia's Denis Forov, 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 Martial artists from Ehime Prefecture Wrestlers at the 2002 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2006 Asian Games Japanese male sport wrestlers Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games wrestlers for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games 21st-century Japanese sportsmen Asian Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists in wrestling Asian Games bronze medalists in wrestling {{Japan-wrestling-bio-stub