Matt Celotti
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Matthew Celotti |
| Nationality |
 Australia |
| Born |
9 July 1979 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Judo |
| Event(s) | 100 kg |
| Club | Victorian Judo Academy |
Matthew Celotti (born 9 July 1979 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian judoka, who played for the half-heavyweight category.[1] Started out his sporting career at the age of eight, Celotti had earned four titles in the same weight division (2000, 2001, 2003, and 2007) at the Australian Judo Championships.
Celotti represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's half-heavyweight class (100 kg). He lost his first preliminary match to Cuba's Oreidis Despaigne, who successfully scored a yuko, and an ōuchi gari (big inner reap), at the end of the five-minute period.[2] Shortly after the Olympics, Celotti immediately left Beijing for Melbourne to face criminal and assault charges of intentionally causing injury over an incident at Lower Plenty Hotel.[3][4] The following year, he pleaded guilty to an unlawful assault, but avoided a jail term, after he was fined $1,200 to the Heidelberg Magistrates' Court.[5]
References
- ↑ "Matt Celotti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ "Men's Half Heavyweight (100kg/220 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ English, Ben (15 August 2008). "Judo competitor Matt Celotti leaves Olympic Village". The Daily Telegraph. The Sun-Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ Petrie, Andrea (15 August 2008). "Australian Olympian's assault charges". The Age. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ↑ Jackson, William (3 June 2009). "Olympian's guilty plea avoids jail term". Diamond Valley Leader. Retrieved 29 January 2013.