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
Personal information
Full nameSaleh Salah El-Sharabaty
NicknameAbu Salah
NationalityJordanian
Born (1998-09-12) 12 September 1998 (age 26)
Zarqa, Jordan
EducationMarketing
Height189 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Weight class80 kg
Medal record
Men's taekwondo
Representing  Jordan
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 80 kg
Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2023 Rome 80 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Sofia 80 kg
Silver medal – second place 2018 Moscow 80 kg
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou 80 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Jakarta 80 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Beirut 80 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Chuncheon 80 kg
Silver medal – second place 2018 Ho Chi Minh City 80 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Manila 80 kg
Bronze medal – third place 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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "TaekwondoData". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Olympic silver medal for Jordan's Sharabaty". 26 July 2021.
  3. ^ "ELSHARABATY Saleh | Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Palembang". Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Palembang. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  4. ^ "اكسترا تايم - إستضافة صالح الشرباتي وراما أبو الرب - التايكواندو الأردنية في بطولتي كرواتيا واليونان". roya.tv (in Arabic). Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  5. ^ "الشرباتي يحقق فضية بطولة الجائزة الكبرى للتايكوندو". www.assabeel.net (in Arabic). 12 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  6. ^ "TaekwondoData". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
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