Jordan at the 2018 Asian Games

Jordan competed in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia from 18 August to 2 September 2018.^[2] This was Jordan's eighth time competing in the Asian Games, following their first participation in 1986 Seoul. The team has won a total of 33 medals since, including three gold, 15 silver and 15 bronze.^[3]

Jordan at the 2018 Asian Games
IOC code	JOR
NOC	Jordan Olympic Committee
Website	www.joc.jo
in Jakarta and Palembang August 18 (18-08) – September 2 (2-09)
Competitors	45 in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Ahmad Abu-Ghaush[1]
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold 2 Silver 1 Bronze 9 Total 12
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026

Medalists

Further information: 2018 Asian Games medal table

The following Jordan competitors won medals at the Games.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Julyana Al-Sadeq Taekwondo Women's 67 kg 20 Aug  Gold Haidar Al-Rasheed Ju-jitsu Men's 85 kg 26 Aug  Silver Zaid Granduke Ju-jitsu Men's 94 kg 25 Aug  Bronze Hamza Kattan Taekwondo Men's +80 kg 21 Aug  Bronze Saleh El-Sharabaty Taekwondo Men's 80 kg 22 Aug  Bronze Ahmad Abu-Ghaush Taekwondo Men's 68 kg 23 Aug  Bronze Yara Kakish Ju-jitsu Women's 62 kg 25 Aug  Bronze Freeh Al-Harahsheh Ju-jitsu Men's 62 kg 25 Aug  Bronze Abdelkarim Al-Rashid Ju-jitsu Men's 77 kg 26 Aug  Bronze Abdelrahman Al-Masatfa Karate Men's kumite 67 kg 26 Aug  Bronze Bashar Al-Najjar Karate Men's kumite 75 kg 27 Aug  Bronze Zeyad Eashash Boxing Men's 69 kg 1 Sep

Medals by sport Sport Total Boxing 0 0 1 1 Ju-jitsu 1 1 3 5 Karate 0 0 2 2 Taekwondo 1 0 3 4 Total 2 1 9 12 Medals by day Day Date Total 1 August 19 0 0 0 0 2 August 20 1 0 0 1 3 August 21 0 0 1 1 4 August 22 0 0 1 1 5 August 23 0 0 1 1 6 August 24 0 0 0 0 7 August 25 0 1 2 3 8 August 26 1 0 2 3 9 August 27 0 0 1 1 10 August 28 0 0 0 0 11 August 29 0 0 0 0 12 August 30 0 0 0 0 13 August 31 0 0 0 0 14 September 1 0 0 1 1 15 September 2 0 0 0 0 Total 2 1 9 12

Competitors

The following is a list of the number of competitors representing Jordan that participated at the Games:^[4]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	0	1	1
Basketball	4	0	4
Boxing	3	0	3
Contract bridge	8	2	10
Ju-jitsu	9	2	11
Judo	1	0	1
Karate	4	2	6
Swimming	3	0	3
Taekwondo	4	2	6
Total	36	9	45

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Asian Games

Jordan entered one women's athlete to participate in the athletics competition at the Games.^[5]

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinals / Pl.	Final / BM / Pl.
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Jordan men's	Men's 3x3 tournament	Syria L 19−21	Japan L 7−22	Maldives W Disq.	Qatar L 7−21	Nepal L 10−21	5	did not advance

3x3 basketball

Jordan national 3x3 team participated in the Games, the men's team placed in the pool C based on the FIBA 3x3 federation ranking.

Men's tournament

Main article: 3x3 basketball at the 2018 Asian Games – Men

Roster

The following is the Jordan roster in the men's 3x3 basketball tournament of the 2018 Asian Games.^[6]

• Rayyan Jarrad
• Hanna Juha
• Omar Bukhari
• Shaker Shubair

Pool C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Japan	5	5	0	86	46	+40	Quarterfinals
2	Qatar	5	4	1	74	43	+31
3	Syria	5	3	2	62	76	−14
4	Nepal	5	2	3	59	74	−15
5	Jordan	5	1	4	43	85	−42
—	Maldives	5	0	5	0	0	0

Source: OCA

21 August 17:30

Jordan	19–21	Syria
Pts: Juha 7		Pts: Khouri 8

Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court, Jakarta Referees: Shi (CHN), Quinn (INA)

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21 August 19:20

Jordan	7–22	Japan
Pts: Juha 5		Pts: Arakawa 10

Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court, Jakarta Referees: Ho (HKG), Lim (MAS)

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24 August 17:50

Jordan	vs.	Maldives
Forfeit

Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court, Jakarta

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24 August 15:00

Qatar	21–7	Jordan
Pts: Dieng 9		Pts: Juha 3

Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court, Jakarta Referees: Ho (HKG), Quinn (INA)

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24 August 16:50

Nepal	21–10	Jordan
Pts: Basnet 13		Pts: Jarrad 4

Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court, Jakarta Referees: Quinn (INA), Liu (MAS)

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2018 Asian Games

The boxers team was named on 16 July 2018.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Mohammad Alwadi	–56 kg	Bye	M Mirzakhalilov (UZB) L 0–5	did not advance
Obada Al-Kasbeh	–64 kg	B Thapa (NEP) W 4–0	I Kholdarov (UZB) L 0–5	did not advance
Zeyad Eashash	–69 kg	Bye	Trần ĐT (VIE) L 1–4	T Tharumalingam (QAT) W 5–0	A Shymbergenov (KAZ) L 0–5	Did not advance

Contract bridge

Main article: Contract bridge at the 2018 Asian Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Point	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Rank
Iskandar Imasaih Sakher Makawi Amr Agha Nimer Jawan Hallasa Fadi Sweidan Mohd Zafer Jarrar	Team	77.67	12	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Point	Rank	Point	Rank	Point	Rank
Sireen Barakat Farah Tambulat Marwan Ghanem Samer Al-Rawashdeh	Team	101.59	8	did not advance

Ju-jitsu

Main article: Ju-jitsu at the 2018 Asian Games

Key:

• ADV – Won by advantages.
• PNT – Won by penalties.
• RDC – Won by referee decision.
• SUB – Won by submission.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Freeh Al-Harahsheh	–62 kg	—	Bye	HB Safari (AFG) W 13–0	D Hilal (LBN) W 2–0	O Al-Fadhli (UAE) L 0–2	Bye	M Agaýew (TKM) W 5–0
Ghaleb Al-Harahsheh	–69 kg	—	N Al-Faraj (KUW) W 4ADV–4	J Saputera (INA) W 10–0	N Kazhekov (KAZ) L 0–0ADV	Did not advance	Z Uranov (KGZ) L 0–100SUB	did not advance
Abdallah Nabas		—	A Ahmed (IRQ) L 2–2ADV	did not advance
Abdelkarim Al-Rasheed	–77 kg	Bye	Lee T-y (TPE) W 2–0	H Amraei (IRI) W 2–0	T Mönkh (MGL) W 2–2	N Alymkulov (KGZ) L 0–2	Bye	S Al-Hammadi (UAE) W 0PNT–0
Hamzeh Al-Rasheed		Bye	M Sham (SYR) W 100SUB–0	R Israilov (KAZ) L 0–0RDC	did not advance
Bader Al-Kuzai	–85 kg	—	Bye	A Gavriluk (KAZ) L 0–0ADV	did not advance
Haidar Al-Rasheed		—	Bye	H Ranjbar (IRI) W 10–0	M Joraýew (TKM) W 4–0	A Murtazaliev (KGZ) W 0ADV–0	—	K Balhol (UAE) WO
Basel Fanous	–94 kg	—	Hwang M-s (KOR) L 0–3	did not advance
Zaid Granduke		—	N Çaryýew (TKM) DSQ	M Jalilvand (IRI) W 100SUB–0	R Kussainov (KAZ) W 100SUB–0	I Juraev (UZB) W 0PNT–0	—	F Al-Ketbi (UAE) L 0RDC–0

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Yasmeen Al-Khatib	–49 kg	M Ochoa (PHI) L 0–0ADV	did not advance
Yara Kakish	–62 kg	IY Megawati (INA) W 100SUB–0	G Duvanova (KAZ) W 0ADV–0	Sung K-r (KOR) L 0–2	Did not advance	H Al-Shams (UAE) W 100SUB–0	W Krowýakowa (TKM) W 0ADV–0

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Asian Games

One judoka competed at the Games.^[8][9]

Key:

• 1st number — Ippon
• 2nd number — Waza-ari
• s — Shido

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Younis Eyal Salman	–73 kg	K Nakano (PHI) L 00s1–01s2	did not advance

Karate

Main article: Karate at the 2018 Asian Games

Jordan entered the karate competition with 6 athletes (4 men's and 2 women's). The team includes by two Asian Champions and the former Asian Games silver medalists Abdelrahman Al-Masatfa and Bashar Al-Najjar.^[10][11]

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Asian Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Amro Al-Wir	50 m breaststroke	29.58	22	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:03.32	17	did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:16.15	8 Q	2:17.43	8
Khader Baqlah	100 m freestyle	49.30	1 Q	49.10	5
	200 m freestyle	1:47.60	2 Q	1:46.77	4
	400 m freestyle	3:54.27	7 Q	3:52.77	7
Mohammed Bedour	50 m freestyle	23.83	28	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	51.62	29	did not advance
	50 m backstroke	27.40	26	did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2018 Asian Games

Kyorugi

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Zaid Mustafa	Men's −58 kg	Y Yskak (KAZ) L 6–17	did not advance
Ahmad Abu-Ghaush	Men's −68 kg	Bye	Lý HP (VIE) W 27–16	A Natsagdorj (MGL) W 15–12	AM Bakhshi (IRI) L 8–10	Did not advance
Saleh El-Sharabaty	Men's −80 kg	Bye	H Ebata (JPN) W 28–8	Chen LL (CHN) W 13–8	N Rafalovich (UZB) L 2–4	Did not advance
Hamza Kattan	Men's +80 kg	—	Tan YM (MAS)	Yang T-y (TPE) W 24–12	D Shokin (UZB) L 4–5	Did not advance
Rama Abu-Al-Rub	Women's −57 kg	Bye	Lin Y-c (TPE) L 2–2	did not advance
Julyana Al-Sadeq	Women's −67 kg	—	N Jahinge (SRI) W 38–0	M Mirhosseini (IRI) W 21–5	Zhang MY (CHN) W 14–5	Kim J-d (KOR) W 5–1