Yesterday, Wednesday, the Saudi Karate Federation announced that 6 Saudi players were included in the list of 10 best players in the world, which is an unprecedented achievement for the Saudi sport.
And the players are:
Tarek Hamdi .. seventh category of the first class, weight over 84 kg.
Player Sanad Sofiani,…First classification, Olympic category, weight over 84 kg.
Sultan Al-Qahtani. Third classification for the junior category, weight 55 kg.
Abdulaziz Al-Saif .. sixth category, youth category, weight up to 16 kg.
Ali Makri.. the sixth category for the youth category weighing up to 68 kg.
Abdullah Al-Qahtani. Ninth classification in the junior category up to 70 kg.
For the first time in the history of the game, Saudi Arabian karate player Tariq Hamdi won the silver medal of the Tokyo Olympic Games in the weight category over 75 kg.
Although Hamdi advanced 3–0 in this match, he lost, receiving a fourth-degree warning from the match referee, who felt that he used violence against his Iranian opponent after hitting him and kicking him out of the competition.
