Yemen at the 2018 Asian Games explained

Noc:	YEM
Nocname:	Yemen Olympic Committee
Year:	2018
Date:	–
Games:	Asian Games
Location:	Jakarta and Palembang
Competitors:	31
Sports:	10
Appearances:	auto
See also:	North Yemen (1982 • 1986) South Yemen (1982)
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Yemen participated in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia from 18 August to 2 September 2018. Yemen has participated seven times at the Games since 1990 Beijing, and collected 2 bronze medals this far.^{[1] [2]}

Competitors

Yemen participated in ten sporting events with a total 31 competitors. Six athletes (Abdulelah Mones, Ahmed Ayash, Ali Khousrof, Hussein Al-Jarrah, Salem Mohammed, and Zeyad Mater) competed in two sporting events. The following is a list of the number of competitors representing Yemen that participated at the Games:^[3]

width=200	Sport !	width=60	Men !	width=60	Women !	width=60	Total
Athletics	3	2	5
Ju-jitsu	4	0	4
Judo	4	0	4
Karate	3	0	3
Kurash	4	0	4
Swimming	1	1	2
Table tennis	5	0	5
Taekwondo	2	0	2
Wrestling	4	0	4
Wushu	4	0	4
Total	34	3	37

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2018 Asian Games.

Yemen entered five athletes (3 men's and 2 women's) to participate in the athletics competition at the Games.^[4]

Ju-jitsu

See main article: article and Ju-jitsu at the 2018 Asian Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ali Khousrof	–62 kg		DSQ	Did not advance
Abdulelah Mones	–69 kg		DSQ	L 0–100^SUB	Did not advance
Ahmed Ayash	–77 kg		L 0–2 ^DSQ	Did not advance
Zeyad Mater	–85 kg		L 0–100^SUB	Did not advance

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2018 Asian Games.

Yemen participated in Judo at the Games with 4 athletes:^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Ali Khousrof	–60 kg		L 00s1–10	Did not advance
Salem Mohammed	–66 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance
Ahmed Ayash	–73 kg	W 11s1–00s1	L 00s1–10	Did not advance
Hussein Al-Jarrah	–81 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance

Karate

See main article: article and Karate at the 2018 Asian Games.

Yemen participated in the karate competition at the Games with three men's athletes.^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage final	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ali Al-Madhfari	–60 kg	L 0–1	Did not advance
Ahmed Garfan	–67 kg		L 0–2	Did not advance
Adnan Shaif	–75 kg		L 0–5	Did not advance

Kurash

See main article: article and Kurash at the 2018 Asian Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Abdulelah Mones	align=left rowspan=2	–66 kg	L 000−100	Did not advance
Salem Mohammed	W 100−000	L 000−100	Did not advance
Hussein Al-Jarrah	align=left rowspan=2	–81 kg	L 001−012	Did not advance
Zeyad Mater	L 001−001	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2018 Asian Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=4	Mokhtar Al-Yamani	50 m freestyle	23.80	27	Did not advance
100 m freestyle	51.51	28	Did not advance
200 m freestyle	1:51.14	13	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	3:57.61	12	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Nooran Ba Matraf	200 m breaststroke	2:53.11	15	Did not advance
200 m individual medley	2:34.18	15	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2018 Asian Games.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ebrahim Gubran	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 0–4	Did not advance
Omar Ahmed Ali	L 0–4	Did not advance

Team

Taekwondo

See main article: article and Taekwondo at the 2018 Asian Games.

Kyorugi

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Shihab Al-Arifi	Men's −58 kg	L 23–64	Did not advance
Ahmed Al-Khulaqi	Men's −63 kg	L 15–18	Did not advance

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 2018 Asian Games.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mohammed Al-Maghrebi	−57 kg		WO	Did not advance					19
Hussein Al-Azzani	−65 kg		L 0–10	Did not advance					20
Mohammed Al-Quhali	−74 kg		WO	Did not advance			WO	Did not advance	21

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Gamal Al-Sabri	−60 kg	L 0–9	Did not advance				12
Mohammed Al-Maghrebi	−67 kg	L 0–9	Did not advance				14
Hussein Al-Azzani	−77 kg	WO	Did not advance				16
Mohammed Al-Quhali	−87 kg		W 3–3 ^PP	L 0–8		L 0–8	5

Wushu

See main article: article and Wushu at the 2018 Asian Games.

Taolu

Athlete	Event	Event 1		Event 2		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Saddam Hussein Hussein Al-Rahomi	Men's changquan	7.99	16	7.99	16
Yousef Ali Al-Khudari	Men's taijiquan and taijijian	7.80	16	8.20	16	16.00	16

Sanda

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Zaid Ali Wazea	Men's –56 kg		L 0–2	Did not advance
Helal Al-Hajj	Men's –60 kg		L 0–2	Did not advance

Key: * TV – Technical victory.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Participants: Yemen . Asian Games 2018 . 17 July 2018.
2. News: ar:اليمن تشارك في دورة الألعاب الأسيوية في غياب كرة القدم . http://www.almashhadalaraby.com/news/40212 . المشهد العربي . 17 August 2018 . 4 January 2019 . ar.
3. Web site: 18th Asian Games: Participants . . 2 January 2019.
4. Web site: Official Result Book Athletics . . 30 August 2018 . 30 December 2018.
5. Web site: 18th Asian Games Jakarta 2018 . . 17 July 2018.
6. Web site: Official Result Book Karate . . 27 August 2018 . 28 December 2018.