Saleh Al-Sharabaty

Saleh Salah El-Sharabaty (Arabic: صالح صلاح الشرباتي; born September 12, 1998) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete and a member of the Jordanian Taekwondo team where he competes in the -80kg weight.^[1] At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, he won silver and thus became the second Jordanian to win an Olympic medal.^[2] Previously, he won the bronze medal on the welterweight division (80 kg) at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[3]

Saleh El-Sharabaty

Al-Sharabaty in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Saleh Salah El-Sharabaty
Nickname	Abu Salah
Nationality	Jordanian
Born	(1998-09-12) 12 September 1998 (age 26) Zarqa, Jordan
Education	Marketing
Height	189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
Sport	Taekwondo
Weight class	80 kg
Medal record Men's taekwondo Representing  Jordan Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 80 kg Grand Prix 2023 Rome 80 kg 2019 Sofia 80 kg 2018 Moscow 80 kg Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou 80 kg 2018 Jakarta 80 kg Asian Championships 2021 Beirut 80 kg 2022 Chuncheon 80 kg 2018 Ho Chi Minh City 80 kg 2016 Manila 80 kg 2024 Da Nang 80 kg

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.^[4]

Achievements

Silver medal at the 2018 Taekwondo Grand Prix in Moscow^[5] 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.^[6][7]