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Akram Al-Noor | |
Fullname: | Akram Ahmed Abdullah Al-Noor |
Birth Date: | 3 December 1987 |
Birth Place: | Sana'a, Yemen |
Weight: | 540NaN0 |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Event: | 58 kg |
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Akram Ahmed Abdullah Al-Noor (Arabic: أكرم أحمد عبدالله النور; born 3 December 1987) is a retired Yemeni taekwondo practitioner.[1] [2] Al-Noor qualified for the Yemeni squad, as a 16-year-old teen, in the men's flyweight category (58 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth from the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Paris, France. He lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to Ukraine's Oleksandr Shaposhnyk with a default score of 5–7.[3] Al-Noor was also appointed as the Yemeni flag bearer by the National Olympic Committee in the opening ceremony.[4]