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
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.
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QATAR
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
Massana Debesai (aka) Mosana Debesay. Professional Racing Cyclist.
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ERITREA
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
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JORDAN / PALESTINE
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. 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 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.
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EGYPT
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
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