Saleh Salah El-Sharabaty (; born September 12, 1998) is a

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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 ...

athlete and a member of the Jordanian Taekwondo team where he competes in the -80kg weight. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, he won silver and thus became the second Jordanian to win an Olympic medal. Previously, he won the bronze medal on the welterweight division (80 kg) at the

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. He started doing taekwondo at the age of seven at the Jabal Amman Centre. He has a degree in marketing from the University of Applied Sciences.

Achievements

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 and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

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