Ahmed Tijan Jankol and Cherif Younousse Samba. Men’s Beach Volleyball. Sportsmen. Athletes.
Younousse and Tijan win Qatar’s first beach volleyball bronze
Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan downed Latvia’s Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs in the men’s beach volleyball bronze medal match, 21-12, 21-18.
The straight sets victory provided Qatar’s first medal in the sport — and eighth overall medal in the history of the Olympics.
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Ahmed El-gendy (aka) Ahmed Elgendy. Modern Pentathlon. Athlete
Ahmed Elgendy has made Olympics history for Egypt, winning the country’s first ever medal in the men’s modern pentathlon event and the country’s first non-bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Elgendy, who is just 21-years-old, won the historic silver medal after finishing in second place with 1,477 points, just five points away from Great Britain’s Joseph Choong.
Modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five different events: fencing, freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping and final combined ‘laser-run’ event of pistol shooting and cross country running.
source/content: egyptianstreets.com
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EGYPT
Kalkidan Gezahegne. Middle distance runner. Athlete.
Kalkidan Gezahegne won Bahrain’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games after clinching silver in the Women’s 10,000 metres final.
Kalkidan ran a brilliant race to finish in a time of 29 minutes 56.18 seconds. She was right behind gold-medallist Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands, who won in 29:55.32. Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia, who was leading for much of the event, came third in 30:01.72.
Kalkidan’s silver medal was her first in the Olympic Games. It is also Bahrain’s fourth medal in the history of the Olympiad
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BAHRAIN
Tarek Hamdi .Karate. Athlete.
Tarek Hamdi wins a silver medal in the Men’s karate competition at Tokyo Olympics.
Hamdi had endured a heartbreaking end to the final of the Men’s Karate Kumite +75kg when a penalty for dangerous play denied him a gold when he was leading 4-1 against Sajag Ganzjadeh of Iran, who departed the mat at Nippon Budokan arena on a stretcher. The match was awarded as a default 4-0 win for the Iranian.
This is Saudi Arabia’s second silver in its history after runner Hadi Sawan picked up silver in the 400m hurdles at the Sydney 2000 Games.
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SAUDI ARABIA
Feryal Abdelaziz. Karate. Athlete
Egyptian karateka Feryal Abdelaziz clinched the gold medal at Karate competitions in Tokyo, giving Egypt the first gold medal at Tokyo Olympic Games.
Feryal defeated the World no.1 Irina Zaretska from Azerbaijan 2-0 in the final to clinch the gold medal.
Feryal became the first Egyptian girl to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games and the 8th athlete in the nation’s history to achieve a gold medal.
The Egyptian national anthem was played at the Olympic Games for the first time since Athens Olympic Games in 2004 when Karam Gaber won the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
source/content: egypttoday.com
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EGYPT
Giana Farouk. Karate. Athlete.
Giana Farouk wins Egypt’s first medal in Karate.
Farouk became the first Arab and African Karateka to win a medal in the Olympic Games in the sport’s historic debut at the Olympic Games as one of the four sports added specifically for 2020 Olympic Games.
Giana’s bronze medal is Egypt’s fourth medal at Tokyo Olympic Games after Hedaya Malak and Seif Eissa who won the bronze in Taekwondo and Mohamed Ibrahim Kesho who won the bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Visit www.gianafarouk.com for a complete list of her winning records
source/contents: egypttoday.com
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EGYPT
Abdul Rahman Al Masatfa. Karate. Athlete
Abdul Rahman Al Masatfa has won Jordan’s second medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after clinching a bronze in the 67kg Karate competition, according to the Jordan Olympic Committee News Service.
The 25-year-old medical student won every single fight in Pool B to book a semifinal match against Turkey’s Eray Samdan, which he lost 2-0.
This is Jordan’s second medal at the current Olympics followingSaleh Al-Sharabaty’s silver in taekwondo 80kg event last week.
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JORDAN
Man Assad. Weight Lifter. Athlete.
Syrian weightlifter Man Asaad on Wednesday picked up an Olympic bronze medal in the men’s plus-109-kilogram competition at the Tokyo International Forum.
The 27-year-old posted a 190 in the snatch category and followed that with a clean and jerk best of 234, for a total of 424.
Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia won gold with a new Olympic and world record 488, while silver medal winner Ali Davoudi of Iran managed a score of 441.
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SYRIA
Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed (aka) Mohamed ‘Kesho’ Ibrahim Elsayed. Amateur Wrestling. Athlete.
Egyptian star Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed clinched Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg bronze medal .
The 23-year-old defeated Artem Surkov of the ROC in the bonze medal match at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo.
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EGYPT
Soufianne El Bakkali. Steeplechase runner. Athlete
Soufianne el Bakkali makes history, ends Kenya’s 3000m steeplechase domination.
The last time Kenya entered the 3000m stepplechase and did not finish first was the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, 57 years ago.
He thus became the first non-Kenyan born athlete to win the gold at the Olympics or World Championships since 1987.
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MOROCCO