Zaid Kareem
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| Born | 19 June 2001 (age 23)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Zaid Kareem (Arabic: زيد كريم; born 19 June 2001) is a Jordanian Taekwondo practitioner who won a silver medal competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Career
[edit]He won bronze at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in the 55 kg category. He was a bronze medallist at the 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Beirut in the -68 kg division. In 2022, he became the first Jordanian to top the world taekwondo rankings.[2] That year, he won the 2022 Grand Prix Final in Riyadh, as well as reaching the quarter-finals at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships. He was also a silver medalist at the 2022 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Chuncheon, South Korea.[3][4]
He also won a silver at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in the Men's 68 kg. He was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[5] In the semi-final on 8 August 2024, he defeated Bradly Sinden to guarantee a medal in the 68kg category.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Zaid Kareem". Eurosport. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Khalatyan, Rafael (20 February 2024). "Zaid Kareem ready to give Jordan another Olympic taekwondo medal". Inside the Games. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Zaid Kareem ready to build on Jordan's taekwondo rise at Paris Olympics". the nationalnews. 15 February 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Asian Games 2023: Six breakout stars including Puripol Boonson to pay attention to at Paris 2024". Olynpics.com. 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Zaid Kareem and Julyana Al Sadeq carry Jordan's Olympic medal hopes in taekwondo". thenationalnews. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Heartbreak as Doncaster's Bradly Sinden loses in semi-finals at Paris 2024". Doncasterfreepress. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.