Zaid Kareem (Arabic: زيد كريم; born 19 June 2001) is a Jordanian Taekwondo practitioner who won a silver medal competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
He won bronze at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in the 55kg category. He was a bronze medallist at the 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Beirut in the -68kg division. In 2022, he became the first Jordanian to top the world taekwondo rankings.[2] That year, he won the 2022 Grand Prix Final in Riyadh, as well as reaching the quarter-finals at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships. He was also a silver medalist at the 2022 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Chuncheon, South Korea.[3] [4]
He also won a silver at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in the Men's 68 kg. He was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[5] In the semi-final on 8 August 2024, he defeated Bradly Sinden to guarantee a medal in the 68kg category.[6]