Jordan bags gold, silver, bronze medals at Arab Badminton Cup

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AMMAN — The national badminton team achieved outstanding results in the sixth edition of the Arab Badminton Cup, which recently concluded in Bahrain. The national team bagged two gold medals, two silver medals, and two bronze medals in the tournament in which 54 players from 11 Arab countries participated in.اضافة اعلان

Player Domou Amro won a gold medal in the women’s singles, beating Egyptian player Doha Hany with a score of 2–1; Amro also beat UAE player Hind Al-Janahi with a score of 2–0 in the quarterfinals, she also won against her fellow national team player Marah Omar 2–1 in the semi-finals.

Amro snatched the title in the finals and won a gold medal after she beat Algerian Halla Bouksani with a score of 2–0. Omar won a bronze medal after winning three times.

Omar and Amro both were awarded gold medals for the women’s doubles category, after winning the quarterfinals by beating two Bahraini players 2­–0 and beating two Saudi players 2–0 in the semi-finals, and finally winning the finals after against two Algerian players with a score of 2–1.

Bahaa Al-Shnaik received a silver medal for his performance in the men's singles tournament. He opened with a win over the Bahraini Elyas Jaffar 2–0; Shnaik also beat Egyptian Adham Al-Jamal 2–0. In the quarterfinals, Jamal beat Algerian Adel Abdelaziz 2–0, Shnaik continued his winning streak by beating Ahmad Al-Jallad before losing the finals to the Bahraini Adnan Ibrahim 2–1.

Shnaik and Amro won the mixed doubles competitions after beating the Iraq and Algeria duo, but they lost the final to the Egyptian pair.

The duo of Ezzedine Abu Arrah and Shnaik also won the bronze medal for the men's pair after winning against the Iraq and Bahrain duo but losing the semi-finals to the Algeria duo.

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