He continued his success by winning a gold medal at the 1979 World Judo Championships , and secured a spot on the Japanese Olympic team in a highly publicized drawolympics.olympic_medal_honor1976 Summer Olympics bronze medalist Sumio Endo .
The end of July saw Smith qualify for the main singles drawolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 1992 Summer Olympics , where he was defeated in the first round by Russia 's Andrei Cherkasov .