AL-NAJJAR CLAIMS KARATE GOLD IN POLAND

Rising star Mustafa Al-Najjar has won a gold medal in the -57kg category for the cadet category at the World Karate Championships hosted by the Polish city of Bielsko-Biała.
Al-Najjar won gold after five consecutive victories, delivering distinguished performances to show his potential as a future force to be reckoned with.
He opened his campaign with a 6-1 victory over Serbia’s Jovan Popovic in the round of 32, before defeating Azerbaijan’s Huseyn Babayev, 10-1, and then Kazakhstan’s Ensar Akhmediyev, 3-2, in the quarter-final.
In the last four, he defeated Georgia’s Levan Dadishkeliani 5-3 to secure his spot in the final, where he clinched gold by beating Slovakia’s Simon Kovacik 2-0.