country event birth_place nationality sport birth_date article_title
yemen men 's 68 kg sana'a , yemen yemeni taekwondo 1 january 1987 tameem al-kubati

tameem al-kubati

tameem mohammed ahmed al-kubati -lrb- born 1 january 1989 in sana'a , yemen -rrb- is a yemeni taekwondo practitioner .
al-kubati won a bronze medal at the 2008 asian taekwondo championships and a gold medal at the 2011 pan arab games .
he competed at the 2012 summer olympics in the 58kg event .
he was the flag bearer of the yemeni sports team during the opening ceremonies .
on august 8 , he advanced from the preliminaries to the quarterfinals by defeating gabriel mercedes of the dominican republic -lrb- 8-3 -rrb- .
in the quarterfinals , he was defeated by Óscar muñoz of colombia -lrb- 2-14 -rrb- .
