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Faisal Jeylani Aweys
Faisal Jeylani Aweys is a Somali taekwondo fighter born in Mogadishu in 1987 and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. Competing for Somalia, he won a bronze medal at the 2014 African Taekwondo Championships in Tunisia.
Faisal Jeylani Aweys
- Lived
- 1987 to today
- Known as one of
- Sport
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who is he?
Faisal Jeylani Aweys is a Somali taekwondo practitioner (Wikipedia). 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.
Career
He joined the Somalia national taekwondo team after Duran Farah spotted him at a tournament in Switzerland (Wikipedia). 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). By June 2014 he was ranked 56th in the world in his weight class (same source). See Sport in Somalia.
In short
A Mogadishu-born, Swiss-trained fighter who won Somalia an African taekwondo bronze in 2014.
Sources
- Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
Faisal Jeylani Aweys
- Lived
- 1987 to today
- Known as one of
- Sport
- Places
- Muqdisho and Banaadir
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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