UNITED KINGDOM: OLYMPICS - Japan's Masashi Ebinuma shows off his bronze medal having taken third place in the 66kg Judo event on Sunday
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UNITED KINGDOM: OLYMPICS - Japan's Masashi Ebinuma shows off his bronze medal having taken third place in the 66kg Judo event on Sunday
- Title: UNITED KINGDOM: OLYMPICS - Japan's Masashi Ebinuma shows off his bronze medal having taken third place in the 66kg Judo event on Sunday
- Date: 30th July 2012
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 30, 2012) (REUTERS) **FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY** MASASHI EBINUMA, BRONZE MEDALLIST IN 66KG JUDO, WEARING HIS MEDAL AT NEWS CONFERENCE MASASHI EBINUMA WALKS TO CHAIR AT NEWS CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHER (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) MASASHI EBINUMA, BRONZE MEDALLIST IN 66KG JUDO, SAYS: "I was aiming at gold and I am not happy with bronze. But the semi-final was quite different. In the semi-final I realised it was between getting a medal or not getting a medal, by the semi-final I realised I would be fighting for a bronze." MASASHI EBINUMA POSING WITH HIS BRONZE MEDAL/PHOTOGRAPHERS/EBINUMA WITH HIS MEDAL
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- Story Text: Japan's Masashi Ebinuma wore his bronze medal as he met reporters in London on Monday (July 30), having taken third place in the 66kg Judo event on Sunday (July 29).
Ebinuma beat Poland's Pawel Zagrodnik to take the bronze while Georgia's Lasha Shavdatuashvili beat Miklos Ungvari of Hungary in the gold medal match.
Ebinuma, the world champion, said that he had been aiming for gold but realised after the semi-final defeat to Shavdatuashvili, that he would be fighting for the bronze medal placing.
"I was aiming at gold and I am not happy with bronze. But the semi-final was quite different. In the semi-final I realised it was between getting a medal or not getting a medal, by the semi-final I realised I would be fighting for a bronze," he said.
Ebinuma had been fortunate to even reach the semi-finals. He had been reinstated as winner after appeal in his quarter-final match against South Korea's Cho Jun-Ho which the judge had originally awarded to Cho.
At the beginning of Monday, Japan lie 15th in the medal table with two silver and three bronze medals. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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