# Faisal Jeylani Aweys

> Faisal Jeylani Aweys, born 1987 in Mogadishu: Somali taekwondo fighter based in Switzerland, African Championships bronze in 2014.

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## Who is he?

Faisal Jeylani Aweys is a Somali taekwondo practitioner ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Jeylani_Aweys)). He was born in 1987 in Mogadishu and moved to Switzerland at the age of 13, where he trained in Lausanne (same source). See [Somalis in Switzerland](/en/diaspora/switzerland/).

## Career

He joined the Somalia national taekwondo team after Duran Farah spotted him at a tournament in Switzerland ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Jeylani_Aweys)). In 2010 he co-founded a taekwondo club and won his first Swiss national title (same source). In 2013 he finished fourth at the Alexandria Open in Egypt and won silver at the Open World Taekwondo Challenge Cup in Tongeren (same source).

At the 2014 African Taekwondo Championships in Tunisia he beat fighters from Gabon and Mozambique and took bronze, his best continental result for Somalia ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Jeylani_Aweys)). By June 2014 he was ranked 56th in the world in his weight class (same source). See [Sport in Somalia](/en/society/sport-in-somalia/).

## In short

A Mogadishu-born, Swiss-trained fighter who won Somalia an African taekwondo bronze in 2014.

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