Nationality Yemen Event(s) 58 kg Sport Taekwondo | Weight 54 kg (119 lb) Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) Name Akram Al-Noor | |
Full name Akram Ahmed Abdullah Al-Noor Born 3 December 1987 (age 36) ( 1987-12-03 ) Sana'a, Yemen | ||
Akram Ahmed Abdullah Al-Noor (Arabic: أكرم أحمد عبدالله النور; born December 3, 1987) is a retired Yemeni taekwondo practitioner. Al-Noor qualified for the Yemeni squad, as a 16-year-old teen, in the men's flyweight category (58 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth from the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Paris, France. He lost the preliminary round of sixteen match to Ukraine's Oleksandr Shaposhnyk with a default score of 5–7. Al-Noor was also appointed as the Yemeni flag bearer by the National Olympic Committee in the opening ceremony.
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