Ahmad Abughaush

Ahmad Abughaush

Abughaush at the 2016 Olympic Games

Personal information

Nationality:

Jordan

Birthday:

February 1, 1996

Place of birth:

Amman

Size:

178 cm

Weight:

68 kg

Medals

Olympic games
gold	Rio de Janeiro 2016	up to 68 kg
World championships
bronze	Muju 2017	up to 68 kg
silver	Manchester 2019	up to 74 kg
Asian Games
bronze	Jakarta 2018	up to 68 kg

Ahmad Abughaush ( Arabic أحمد أبو غوش, DMG Aḥmad Abū Ġauš ; * February 1, 1996 in Amman ) is a Jordanian Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 68 kilograms.

Abughaush fought for the first time in 2011 at the world championship in the weight class up to 58 kilograms in the adult area, where he was eliminated in the second round. The following year he became world champion in the juniors' weight class up to 63 kilograms. In 2015 he took part in the World Cup for the second time . Again he was eliminated in the second round, this time against Alexei Denissenko .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he was Olympic champion with victories over Ghofran Zaki , Lee Dae-hoon , Joel González and Alexei Denissenko in the weight class up to 68 kilograms. Abughaush won the first medal at the Olympic Games in the history of Jordan. The Jordan Olympic Committee awarded him 100,000 Jordanian dinars (approx. 126,500 euros) for winning a medal .

He won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships . Another bronze medal followed a year later at the Asian Games . In 2019 , he secured silver at the World Cup in Manchester .

He is studying economics at the University of Jordan in Amman.

Web links

Commons : Ahmad Abughaush - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ahmad Abughaush on the pages of TaekwondoData .com

Individual evidence

↑ Abu Ghaush scores gold in Jordan's first Olympic medal win. In: jordantimes.com. The Jordan Times , August 19, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016 .
↑ JOC to award JD100,000 to Abu Ghaush for Olympic win. In: jordantimes.com. The Jordan Times , August 19, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016 .
↑ Ahmad Abughaush. (No longer available online.) In: results.nbcolympics.com. National Broadcasting Company , archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on September 1, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Abughaush, Ahmad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jordanian Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amman

[1] Abu Ghaush scores gold in Jordan's first Olympic medal win. In: jordantimes.com. The Jordan Times , August 19, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016 .

[2] JOC to award JD100,000 to Abu Ghaush for Olympic win. In: jordantimes.com. The Jordan Times , August 19, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016 .

[3] Ahmad Abughaush. (No longer available online.) In: results.nbcolympics.com. National Broadcasting Company , archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on September 1, 2016 .