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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.
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
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.
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.
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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Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women’s 57 kg. Hedaya Malak (Egypt), bronze medal / Tasnim News Agency /pix: /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedaya_Malak /
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.
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.
Today’s date marks the 22nd anniversary of King Hassan II’s death.
The Moroccan monarch was in power from 1961 until his death in 1999.
The late King was seen by many in Morocco as a celebrated diplomat, a charismatic Moroccan figure .
King Hassan II was 32 years old when he acceded to the throne following the untimely death of his father King Mohammed V at 51 years of age.
Hassan II made his first diplomatic steps in January 1943, during the Anfa Conference in the residential suburb of Casablanca, alongside Churchill and Franklin Roosvelt . He was thirteen at the time.
Hassan II’s 38 year reign over the Kingdom still shapes facets of Moroccan politics and society today. He adapted Morocco to the harsh realities of the post-colonial modern world, while preserving the country’s traditions and roots.
Hassan II was driven by the dream of recovering Moroccan territories lost during the colonial era. A quest he undertook as soon as he got to power. Morocco’s territorial integrity was strengthened during his reign, thanks to the recovery of three Moroccan territories taken away during colonization: Sidi Ifni in 1969, Saquia el Hamra in 1975 and finally Oued ed Dahab in 1979.
On November 6, 1975, King Hassan II of Morocco made a historic speech calling on the Moroccan people to undertake a long peaceful march south to liberate the Western Sahara from Spanish occupation.
The Green March was an unprecedented event in the history of the 20th century, which gathered 3.5 million volunteers from all over the country and put an end to Spanish colonial rule in the Sahara without the use of violence.
Hassan II also led Morocco through a ruthless global cold war. The Moroccan monarch took advantage of a series of regional and international crises to embolden the country’s strategic role in the region, as well as on the international scene.
Morocco became a bulwark against communism in the Maghreb and Arab World, as most countries in Africa were leaning towards the left after gaining independence from western empires.
King Hassan II also helped bring about the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. He was involved in the subsequent agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organization, Jordan, and Israel.
Morocco’s current political stability is also a part of Hassan II’s legacy. As his reign coincided with the decolonization era in southern countries, most African neighbors did not stand the test of the skillfully orchestrated power vacuum left by their former colonizers.
King Hassan II’s funeral brought important delegations from all continents. World leaders, including former president of the US Bill Clinton, attended the funeral.
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.
