medaltemplates article_title birth_date
men 's judo joel brutus
 august 12 , 1974
joel brutus

joel brutus -lrb- born august 12 , 1974 -rrb- is a male judoka from haiti , who won the silver medal in the men 's heavyweight division -lrb- + 100 kg -rrb- at the 2003 pan american games .
he represented his native country at two consecutive summer olympics , starting in 2004 in athens , greece .
brutus carried the haitian flag at the opening ceremony of the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , pr china .
