Mohammad Al-Bakhit (born February 22, 1987) is a male

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practitioner. He won the gold medal in the finweight category (-54 kg) at the

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Career

Mohammad Al Bakhit first gained international attention at the 2002 World Junior Taekwondo Championships where he won the finweight gold medal. On December 7, 2006, he took the gold medal of taekwondo men's finweight (-54 kg), beating Vasavat Somswang from

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in the final of the 2006 Asian Games. That was the first gold medal of Jordan in the history of

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1987 births Living people Jordanian male taekwondo practitioners Asian Games medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2006 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Jordan Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games 21st-century Jordanian people {{Jordan-taekwondo-bio-stub