Mohammad Al-Bakhit (born February 22, 1987) is a male

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

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Taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

practitioner. He won the gold medal in the finweight category (-54 kg) at the

2006 Asian Games The 2006 Asian Games (), officially known as the XV Asiad or 15th Asian Games (, and commonly known as Doha 2006 (), were an Asian multi-sport event held in Doha, Qatar, from December 1 to 15, 2006, with 424 events in 39 sports featured in the ga ...

Career

Al Bakhit at the 2002 World Junior Taekwondo Championships won the finweight gold medal. On December 7, 2006, he took the gold medal of taekwondo men's finweight (-54 kg), beating Vasavat Somswang from

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

in the final of the 2006 Asian Games. That was the first gold medal of Jordan in the history of

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the 1951 Asian Games, first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until ...

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1987 births Living people Jordanian male taekwondo practitioners Asian Games gold medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2006 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Jordan Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games 21st-century Jordanian sportsmen {{Jordan-taekwondo-bio-stub