Saeed Rashid Al Qubaisi

Saeed Rashed Al Qubaisi
Personal information
Nationality  United Arab Emirates
Born (1989-12-02) 2 December 1989
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Country United Arab Emirates
Sport Judo
Event(s) 73 kg
Club wrestling & judo & Kik boxing federation
Team AbuDhabi Team
Coached by Hassan Mousa / Sergey
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals Olympic Beijing 2008

Saeed Rashed Al-Qubaisi (Arabic: سعيد راشد القبيسي; born December 2, 1989) is an Emirati judoka, who played for the lightweight category.[1] Al-Qubaisi became the first Emirati athlete to represent his nation in a combative sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He lost the first preliminary match of the men's lightweight class (73 kg) to South Africa's Marlon August, who successfully scored an ippon and a kuchiki taoshi (single leg takedown), in one minute and twenty-seven seconds.[3]

References

  1. "Saeed Rashed Al-Qubaisi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  2. Fonseca, Duane (4 July 2008). "Al Qubaisi elated to represent UAE". Gulf News. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
  3. "Men's Lightweight (73kg/161 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 23 December 2012.

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