Jordan national taekwondo team athlete Ahmad Al-Dahamesheh, aged 16, won the second gold medal of the Youth Olympics in Dakar today. It is the second in the history of Jordan's and taekwondo's participation in the Youth Olympic Games.
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Al-Dahamesheh's gold is the second for taekwondo, following the first won yesterday by national team athlete Abdullah Al-Zawahreh in the under-63kg category. It is also the fifth medal for taekwondo across the Youth Olympic Games.
Jordan now top the medal table in individual taekwondo at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympics.
Al-Dahamesheh won four bouts in the under-73kg category. He beat Turkey's Berk Erkan Imamoglu 2-0 in the round of 16, Germany's Christos Papathanasiou 2-0 in the quarter-finals, Mexico's Jorge Octavio Martinez 2-0 in the semi-finals, and Azerbaijan's Adil Kazimli 2-0 in the final.
The national team now put their full weight behind the quarter-finals of the mixed team event, where they meet Senegal.
Source: Al-Ghad. Reporting by Ayman Al-Khatib
