Essa Mohammed Gharib Al-Zankawi (born 17 October 1992) is a

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

i/ Hungarian athlete in Kuwait’s national

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

team specializing in

Discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

. He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. He won a silver medal at the 2015 Asian Championships2015 Asian Championships Results
Athletics Asia. Retrieved on 2017-02-04. and a bronze at the 2018 Asian Games, where he served as the flag bearer for Kuwait at the opening ceremony.

Competition record

References

Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1992 births Kuwaiti male athletes Male discus throwers Kuwaiti discus throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Kuwait Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Asian Games bronze medalists for Kuwait Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Kuwait {{Kuwait-athletics-bio-stub