AMMAN —
National taekwondo team athletes Zeid Al-Halawani and Natalie Al-Humaidi failed to qualify for the
2020 Tokyo Olympics after losing their respective semifinal faceoffs in the Asian qualifiers.
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The qualifiers, which concluded on Saturday saw the participation of 84 athletes from 28 countries.
Halawani scored a win in his first spar against the Lebanese, Mark Khalifeh (24-3) for the under 58 weight group, but then lost to the Filipino Kurt Bryan (50-49).
Humaidi pulled off two consecutive wins, first, against her Palestinian peer, Layan Jaber (32-6) and second in a match against the Cambodian, Nicole (5-3).
However, Humaidi later lost to Iran’s Nahid Kiyani (4-2) in the semifinals.
National taekwondo team members, Juliana Al-Sadeq and Saleh Al-Sharabati qualified to the Olympics last weekend, pushing the number of Jordanians who have qualified for the mega event to eight; among them five boxers (Hussein and Ziad Ishaish, Obada Al-Kasbeh, Mohammad Al-Wadi and odai Al-Hindawi,) in addition to equestrian Ibrahim Bsharat.
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