Doniya Abu Talib presented a Saudi Arabian national taekwondo player with a historic medal yesterday, Thursday, when she won the bronze medal in the 49kg division at the World Senior Taekwondo Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico, with 122 nations participating.
Doniya defeated Kazakhstan’s Kabanova Potakoz 2-0 in the 1/8 finals, the German Sofarada Kishkalt, who ranked eighth in the world with a score of 2-1, and the Egyptian Shahd Al-Husseini, who ranked ninth in the world, in the 1/8 finals ( 2:2). -0) Won the gold of the World Championship and the silver of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
On the other hand, Abu Talib played China’s Ken Gu in the semi-finals and failed to beat her, winning the first bronze medal in the history of Saudi taekwondo at the women’s level.