KSA’s Donia Abu Taleb first female to qualify for the Olympics

Saudi Arabian female taekwondo player, Donia Abu Taleb, becomes the first woman player to qualify for the Olympics.

On Friday, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the US confirmed, that Donia Abu Taleb is the first Saudi female athlete to qualify for this year’s Paris Olympics.

In a post on X, Princess Reema bint Bandar said: “Saudi Taekwondo national team member Donia Abu Talib is officially the first Saudi female athlete to qualify for the Olympics, she successfully competed in the Asian qualifying rounds for the Olympic Games!!!! @saudiolympic”.

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In recent years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has invested heavily in sports to allow better opportunities for its youth as part of Vision 2030, with a special focus on female athletes.

British newspaper The Telegraph reported that approximately 330,000 female athletes are registered in Saudi Arabia. The report further showed that an increase of 195 percent in professional female players had been recorded in the country since 2021.

It is pertinent to note that last year, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) said youth development had been halved to almost 16.8 percent in 2022, with female participation reaching thirty-six percent – that resulted in Saudi Arabia meeting its expected target of thirty percent under the government’s Vision 2030 reform agenda.

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Saudi taekwondo player Donia Abu Talib.

On the other hand, KSA is also flourishing in the field of education by providing better access to its youth to some of the best universities in the Middle East region – while achieving the merit of one of the top-ranked institutions for innovation. According to an Al Arabiya report, with more than six million students in the country, Saudi Arabia’s population is almost sixty-seven percent under the age of 35.

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Following the news of Donia Abu Taleb’s qualification, Prince Abdulaziz Al-Faisal who serves as the Minister for Sports wrote on X: “I congratulate the Saudi Taekwondo national team player, Donia Abu Talib. She officially qualified for the Paris Olympics. Successive achievements and unstoppable ambition, thanks to God, and then supporting the leadership of our dear homeland.”

Donia, the Saudi national taekwondo player, scripted history by defeating Spanish world number one Adriana Cerezo Iglesias, who won the silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

The female player holds the 12th rank internationally and the 15th Olympicly. According to the International Taekwondo Data website, Donia Abu Taleb has participated in 35 fights of which she has won twenty, maintaining her winning streak at over fifty-seven percent.

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