Jordan celebrates the second Olympic medal in its history .. "The Champion Saleh Al-Sharbati"

Jordanian taekwondo player Saleh Al-Sharbati, ranked sixth in the world, won the silver medal in the 80-kg weight category at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, after losing in the final to the first-ranked Russian Maxim Khrushchev, who participated under a neutral flag 20-9.

Al-Sharbaty, the 2021 Asian champion, guaranteed Jordan its first medal in the Japanese capital and the second in the history of the Olympics by reaching the final, after Ahmed Abu Ghosh won its first in taekwondo as well when he won the gold - 68 kg in Rio 2016.

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