UAE players continued their march of excellence in the competitions of the third day of the Fujairah International Open Taekwondo Championship, organized by the Fujairah Martial Arts Club at Zayed Sports Complex in Fujairah, under the supervision of the International Federation of the Game and the Emirates Taekwondo Federation, with a record participation of 1257 players distributed among 80 teams representing 40 countries from different countries. Continents of the world.
The UAE champions were able to win 95 colored medals, including 27 gold, 28 silver and 40 bronze, shared by the Fujairah Martial Arts Clubs and Sharjah Self-Defense in black and colored belts. The players and players also presented technical levels that dazzled everyone, while Jordan players won 28 colored medals. In various weights, the players of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan also came to the fore, after they succeeded in presenting distinguished performances that deserved to achieve many advanced results.
Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Owais, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sharjah Self-Defense Sports Club, expressed his happiness with the qualitative leap in the sport of Taekwondo in the country thanks to the Fujairah Championships, which contributed to its great development, thanking His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, Honorary President To the Taekwondo Federation, for the unlimited support that the game enjoys, and he praised the distinguished efforts of the Fujairah Martial Arts Club in hosting and organizing the tournament for the seventh year in a row, stressing that the international sports leaders in Taekwondo, assured him that they are waiting for this tournament to be held annually to follow its levels and see the movement of development of Taekwondo In the Middle East.
The most prominent results of the black belt in the under 78 kg weight were Pakistani Danish winning the gold, followed by Kuwait’s Waleed Al Shammari with the silver, and in the weight of more than 78 kg the Saudi Ali Mabrouk won the gold, followed by the Egyptian Mahmoud Muhammad with the silver, then the Jordanian Bashar Haddad with the bronze, and in the under 68 kg weight Sharjah player Fahd Abdul Razzaq won the gold, followed by the Egyptian Ahmed Walid, the silver, while the player Iman Koroush from the team (Tolerance IGB - Dubai) won the bronze medal, and in the weight under 59 kg, Uzbekistan Akramov won the gold, and the Jordanian Wissam Ayad came in second place and the medal Silver, followed by Ukraine player Vladislav with bronze.
UAE player Zainab Ahmed won gold in the women's under 68 kg weight category, and in the under 52 kg weight category, Sharjah Club player Reem Mustafa won the silver, followed by Fujairah Martial Arts player Sarah Al Kharabsheh.
In the under-46 kg weight, Uzbekistan's Rashona won the gold, followed by Sweden's Holmister with the silver, while the Fujairah martial arts players Maryam Taher and her colleague Badriya Al Mulla, shared the bronze.
In the most prominent results of the colorful medals, Maitha Abdul Aziz from Sharjah won the gold in the under 42 kg weight, Rawan Muhammad won the silver and Noura Sultan from Fujairah Martial Arts won the bronze, and in the under 49 kg weight, Aisha Ahmed from Kalba, followed by Hawraa Ahmed from the Emirates School and Mira Ibrahim From Sharjah, and in the under-52 kg weight, Rahaf Amjad from Fujairah won the gold, followed by Hoor Hamid from Fujairah also with the silver.
Jassim Al Matrooshi, the coach of the Tolerance Team (Dubai AGB), won the Medal of Commendation as the first Taekwondo coach of people of determination in the country, and his team succeeded in winning eight colorful medals