Akram Al-Noor
Yemeni taekwondo practitioner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akram Ahmed Abdullah Al-Noor (Arabic: أكرم أحمد عبدالله النور; born 3 December 1987) is a retired Yemeni taekwondo practitioner.[1][2] Al-Noor qualified for the Yemeni squad, as a 16-year-old teen, in the men's flyweight category (58 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth from the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Paris, France. He lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to Ukraine's Oleksandr Shaposhnyk with a default score of 5–7.[3] Al-Noor was also appointed as the Yemeni flag bearer by the National Olympic Committee in the opening ceremony.[4]
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Full name | Akram Ahmed Abdullah Al-Noor | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Yemen | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1987-12-03) 3 December 1987 (age 36) Sana'a, Yemen | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||
Event | 58 kg | ||||||||||||||
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