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Mutaz Essa Barshim Wins 2nd Gold Medal For Qatar, Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Mutaz Essa Barsham. Track and Field Athlete. High Jump.

Mutaz Barshim high jumper claims a first ever gold medal in the track and field with victory in the men’s high jump.

High jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy share gold medal

The pair had a choice of a jump-off for one gold or shared medals, and they chose the latter because of their longtime friendship.

Both high jumpers were perfect until the bar was set to the Olympic-record height of 2.39 meters (7 feet, 10 inches). Each missed three times.

Earlier Wins:

National record holder
Asian record holder with a best mark of 2.43 m (7 ft 11+¹⁄₂ in).
Winner, gold medal at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London
Winner at 2019 World Championships in Athletics in Doha.
Winner bronze at the London 2012 Summer Olympics
Winner silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio
Winnr gold at the 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo.
Asian Indoor and World Junior champion in 2010
Winner – high jump gold medals at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships
Winner at 2011 Military World Games

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QATAR

Fares Elbakh Makes History. Becomes Qatar’s First Olympic Champion. Wins Gold Medal, Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Fares Elbakh (aka) Fares El-Bakh (aka) Fares Ibrahim Sayed Hassouna El-Bakh (aka) Meso Hassouna. Weightlifter. Athlete.

Sets new Olympic record with gold in 96kg men’s weightlifting final,with Keydomar Giovanni Vallenilla Sanchez winning silver and Anton Pliesnoi making the bronze .

The Qatari El-Bakh put up 177kg in the snatch before sliding into the clean and jerk and setting an Olympic record in that lift with a weight of 225kg. It was one of two Olympic records he broke on the night — along with a massive combined score of 402 that was too much for any of his competitors on the day to even approach.

Elbakh set two new Games records in Tokyo as he won Qatar’s sixth Olympic medal and second in weightlifting.

The gold medal is a first-ever Olympic title for Qatar.

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QATAR / EGYPT

Saleh Elsharabaty Wins Jordan’s First Medal, Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Saleh Elsharabaty (aka) Abu Salah. Athlete. Taekwondo.

Saleh Elsharabaty won the Silver medal. Fell just short of grabbing an Olympic gold for Jordan when he lost the Taekwondo men’s 80 kg final 20-9 to Maksim Khramtcov of the Russian Olympic Committee at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Tokyo.

Elsharabaty – Jordanian of Palestinian origin. Member of the Jordanian Taekwondo team

Earlier Wins :

Silver medal at the 2018 Taekwondo Grand Prix in Moscow
Gold at the 2018 Asian Championship
Bronze at the 2016 Asian Championship
Bronze at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta
Bronze at the 2017 Asian Indoor
Bronze at the Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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JORDAN / PALESTINE

Abdulla Al-Rashidi Wins Kuwait’s First Medal, Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Abdullah Al-Rashidi. Sports Shooting. Skeet. Athlete.

A seven time Olympian who won a bronze medal for Kuwait at the Tokyo Olympics.

It was Abdullah Al-Rashidi’s second Olympic medal but first for his country.

“I am 58 years old. I am the oldest shooter and the bronze medal is worth more than gold for me. I am very happy for this medal, but I hope for a gold medal at the next Olympics,” he told the Olympic information service at the Asaka shooting range.

In the 2016 Rio Olympics Al-Rashidi competed as an individual Athlete winning a Bronze medal.

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KUWAIT

Seif Issa Wins Egypt’s 2nd Medal, Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Seif Issa. Athlete. Taekwondo.

Taekwondo fighter Seif Issa won the second bronze medal for Egypt after beating Andre Richard Ordemann of Norway 12-4 in the Men’s –80kg contest.

This is Egypt’s second medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, as Egyptian Taekwondo fighter Hedaya Malak also secured a bronze medal after beating Paige Mcpherson of USA 17-6 on Monday.

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EGYPT

Hedaya Malak Wins Egypt’s First Medal at Tokyo 2020 Olympics : July 2021

Hedaya Malak Wahba (aka) Hedaya Malak. Athlete. Taekwondo.

Hedaya Malak Wahba defeated the United States of America’s Paige McPherson 17-6 in the bronze-medal event of the women’s 67kg Taekwondo event, winning Egypt’s first medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Hedaya became the first Arab woman to win two consecutive Olympic medals in Taekwondo, a great achievement for the Egyptian champion

She was also winner of the bronze medal in 2016 Olympics after defeating Raheleh Asemani of Belgium in the Repechage.

First/s :

First woman in Egypt’s history to carry the flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
First Egyptian Woman to win a medal in Taekwondo at the Olympics
Hedaya became the first Arab woman to win two consecutive Olympic medals in Taekwondo, a great achievement.

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EGYPT

Tunisian Teen Ahmed Hafnaoui – Grabs Glory. Wins First Arab Gold Medal in Swimming, at Tokyo Olympics : July 2021

Ahmed Hafnaoui. Athlete. Swimming

Ahmed Hafnaoui creates history, wins first Arab gold in men’s 400m freestyle swimming.

The 18-year-old raced a sizzling final 50m to touch in 3:43.36 and overhaul Australian Jack McLoughlin (3:43.52) and US swimmer Kieran Smith (3:43.94), who took bronze.

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TUNISIA

Tunisia’s Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi – First Arab to Win Tokyo Olympics Medal in Taekwondo : July 2021

Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi. Athlete. Taekwondo.

Tunisian taekwondo player Mohamed Khalil Al-Jandubi won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after losing the 58kg final to Italy’s Vito Delaquila on Saturday.

The 19-year-old Gindobi in the semi-finals defeated 2019 world champion Jang Joon of Korea and world number one earlier in the day.

This is the first Arab medal at the Tokyo Games to date.

Jendoubi’s medal was Tunisia’s second taekwondo Olympic medal after Oussama Oueslati won bronze in the 80kg category in 2016.

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TUNISIA

Hend Zaza – at 12, Syrian – Makes History , Youngest Athlete at Tokyo Olympics : – July 2021

Hend Zaza (aka) Hend Abdul Rauf Zaza – Table Tennis Star.

She qualified to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, through the West Asia Olympic qualifying tournament held in Jordan in 2020.

At the age of 12, she was the youngest person to compete in Olympic table tennis, and the fifth-youngest person to compete in the modern Olympics.

She was the youngest competitor at the 2020 games, and the youngest Olympic competitor since Beatrice Hustiu, a Romanian figure-skater who competed in 1968.

She plays for the Al-Muhafaza Table Tennis Club in Damascus and has won national titles at all levels: hopes, cadets, junior and senior.

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SYRIA

Rower Mohamed Sbihi to Become First Muslim to Carry British Flag at Olympics Opening Ceremony : July 2021

Mohamed Sbihi (aka) Mohamed Karim Sbihi (aka) Moe Sbihi. Rower. Dual Olympian. Twice Olympic Medal Winner.

British rower and gold medalist Mohamed Sbihi will on Friday make history when he becomes the first Muslim to carry the British flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, a role he will share with another gold medalist, sailor Hannah Mills.

Sbihi, 33, won a gold medal in the coxless four at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and claimed a bronze as part of the British crew in the men’s eight at London 2012.

Sbihi, who received an MBE in the British Queen’s 2017 New Year’s Honors list, and Mills, a campaigner for clean oceans.

Sbihi, who was born in Kingston upon Thames to a Moroccan father and British mother, gave notice of his talent as a rower at the age of 15 when he finished first in the junior men J15 category at the 2003 Great Britain Indoor Rowing Championships.

source/content: arabnews.com

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BRITISH / MOROCCAN