Safia Salih
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Born | 16 March 2001 |
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Country | Morocco |
Sport | Taekwondo |
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Safia Salih (born 16 March 2001) is a Moroccan taekwondo practitioner. She represented Morocco at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and she won the gold medal in the women's 62 kg event.[1][2]
At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she won the silver medal in the 55 kg event. In 2019, she competed in the women's lightweight event at the World Taekwondo Championships where she was eliminated by Anna-Lena Frömming in her first match.
She competed in the women's 67 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.[3] She was eliminated in her second match by eventual bronze medalist Magda Wiet-Hénin of France.[3]
She competed in the women's lightweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico. She also competed in the women's welterweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
References
[edit]- ^ "Taekwondo Day 3 Results" (PDF). 2019 African Games. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ O'Kane, Patrick (24 August 2019). "Morocco top taekwondo African Games medal table as sport showcased in Rabat". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
External links
[edit]- Safia Salih at TaekwondoData.com
- Safia Salih at Olympedia
- Living people
- 2001 births
- Moroccan female taekwondo practitioners
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- Competitors at the 2019 African Games
- Competitors at the 2023 African Games
- African Games medalists in taekwondo
- African Games gold medalists for Morocco
- African Games bronze medalists for Morocco
- Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games competitors for Morocco
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in taekwondo
- 21st-century Moroccan women
- 21st-century Moroccan people
- Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
- Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Morocco
- Moroccan martial arts biography stubs
- African taekwondo biography stubs