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Sporting event delegation
Jordan at the
2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC codeJOR
NPCJordan Paralympic Committee
in Beijing
Competitors12 in 3 sports
Medals
Ranked 55th
Gold
0
Silver
2
Bronze
2
Total
4
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

Jordan competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. Jordanian athletes competed in three sports: athletics, powerlifting and table tennis. Among the competitors was Maha Barghouti, a table tennis player who won Jordan's first Paralympic gold medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. The team left for Beijing on September 29.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Silver Jamil Elshebli Athletics Men's Shot Put - F57/58
 Silver Omar Qarada Powerlifting Men's -48 kg
 Bronze Khetam Abuawad
Fatmeh Al-Azzam		 Table Tennis Women's Team - Classes 4/5
 Bronze Mu'taz Aljuneidi Powerlifting Men's -75 kg

Sports

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's field

Athlete Class Event Final
Result Points Rank
Amer Alabbadi F57-58 Shot put 13.29 888 11
Jamil Elshebli F57-58 Shot put 14.28 1064 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Omar Hamadin F55-56 Discus throw 32.59 846 9
Mohammad Yaseen F33-34/52 Discus throw 17.05 913 7

Women's field

Athlete Class Event Final
Result Points Rank
Tharwh Al Hajaj F57-58 Discus throw 23.05 733 13

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete Event Result Rank
Mu'taz Aljuneidi 75kg 210.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Faisal Hammash 56kg 160.0 9
Omar Qarada 48kg 162.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Women

Athlete Event Result Rank
Fatama Allawi 52kg 80.0 7

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Athlete Event Preliminaries Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Khetam Abuawad Women's singles C5  Bessho (JPN)
W 3-2 		 Nardelli (ITA)
W 3-1 		 Nir Kistler (USA)
W 3-0 		1 Q —  Ren G (CHN)
L 0-3 		 Zimmerer (GER)
L 0-3 		4
Fatmeh Al-Azzam Women's singles C4  Perić (SRB)
L 2-3 		 Dolinar (SLO)
W 3-0 		 Rozmiej (POL)
W 3-1 		2 did not advance
Maha Al-Bargouti Women's singles C1-2  Lafaye (FRA)
L 1–3 		 Khazaei (IRI)
L 2–3 		— 3 did not advance
Khetam Abuawad
Fatmeh Al-Azzam
Maha Al-Bargouti 		Women's team C4-5 —  South Africa (RSA)
W 3-0 		 Chinese Taipei (TPE)
W 3-2 		 China (CHN)
L 1-3 		 Serbia (SRB)
W 3-1 		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

See also

References

  1. "Competing in sports gave me a life: Jordan's first Paralympics gold medalist". Xinhua News Agency. 2008-08-31. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-31.


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