Palestine at the 2018 Asian Games

Palestine at the
2018 Asian Games
Palestine at the; 2018 Asian Games
IOC code	PLE
NOC	Palestine Olympic Committee
Website	www.poc.ps (in Arabic)
in Jakarta and Palembang; August 18 – September 2
Competitors	46 in 12 sports
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Asian Games appearances (overview)
	1990; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022; 2026;

Palestine competed in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia from 18 August to 2 September 2018.^[1] Palestine have competed in the Asian Games since 1994 with only one entrant and won their first medal in 2002 Busan with a bronze in boxing.^[2] This event marks the eight Asian Games appearance for Palestine.

Competitors

The following is a list of the number of competitors representing Palestine that participated at the Games:^[3]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	2	1	3
Football	20	0	20
Ju-jitsu	3	0	3
Judo	1	0	1
Karate	4	0	4
Kurash	1	0	1
Swimming	3	2	5
Taekwondo	1	0	1
Triathlon	2	0	2
Volleyball	2	0	2
Weightlifting	2	0	2
Wrestling	2	0	2
Total	43	3	46

Athletics

Palestine entered three athletes (2 men's and 1 women) to participate in the athletics competition at the Games.^[4]

Football

Palestine participated in the men's team event at the 2018 Asian Games in Group A of the tournament.^[5]

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage					Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Palestine men's	Men's tournament	Chinese Taipei D 0–0	Laos W 2–1	Indonesia W 2–1	Hong Kong D 1–1	2 Q	Syria L 0–1	did not advance			11

Men's tournament

The draw for the men's football event was held on 5 July 2018 initially with involving 24 teams. The teams seeded into four pots with six teams each classified in those pots. However the initial draw was scratched due to the omission of both UAE and Palestine due to the by mistakes of the game organisers.^[6]^[7] It was early proved that both of the football associations of Palestine and United Arab Emirates correctly submitted their participation form on time before the deadline.^[8] Due to these errors, the tournament's draw result was rescheduled and reconfirmed on 25 July 2018 with Palestine added to the Group A alongside hosts Indonesia and UAE was added to Group E.^[9]^[10]^[11]

However another redraw was held again for the men's football team event on 3 August 2018 due to the sudden withdrawal of Iraq national football team and it was decided to move either UAE or Palestine to Group C.^[12]^[13]^[14]

Roster

The following is the Palestine squad in the men's football tournament of the 2018 Asian Games. The team of 20 players was officially named on 8 August.^[15]

Head coach: Ayman Sandouqa

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Ramzi Fakhouri	(1996-02-19)19 February 1996 (aged 22)	Thaqafi Tulkarm
2	2DF	Ahmed Qatmish	(1998-03-10)10 March 1998 (aged 20)	Thaqafi Tulkarm
3	3MF	Mohammed Bassim	(1995-07-03)3 July 1995 (aged 23)	Shabab Al-Bireh
4	2DF	Michel Termanini	(1998-05-08)8 May 1998 (aged 20)	AFC Eskilstuna
5	2DF	Abdelatif Bahdari* (captain)	(1984-02-20)20 February 1984 (aged 34)	Merkaz Balata
6	3MF	Mohanad Fannoun	(1995-09-18)18 September 1995 (aged 22)	Shabab Al-Khalil
7	3MF	Mahmoud Abu Warda	(1995-05-31)31 May 1995 (aged 23)	Markaz Balata
9	4FW	Oday Dabbagh	(1998-12-03)3 December 1998 (aged 19)	Hilal Al-Quds
10	4FW	Mahmoud Yousef	(1997-07-30)30 July 1997 (aged 21)	Shabab Al-Khalil
11	2DF	Omar El-Sherif	(1997-02-13)13 February 1997 (aged 21)	Wadi Degla
13	4FW	Shehab Qumbor	(1997-08-10)10 August 1997 (aged 21)	Jabal Al-Mukaber
14	2DF	Yousef Al-Ashhab	(1995-02-10)10 February 1995 (aged 23)	Shabab Al-Khalil
15	3MF	Hani Abdallah	(1998-02-03)3 February 1998 (aged 20)	Hilal Al-Quds
16	1GK	Rami Hamadi*	(1994-03-24)24 March 1994 (aged 24)	Hilal Al-Quds
18	4FW	Mohammed Obaid	(1998-09-30)30 September 1998 (aged 19)	Hilal Al-Quds
19	3MF	Sameh Maraaba*	(1992-03-19)19 March 1992 (aged 26)	Shabab Al-Khalil
20	4FW	Mohamed Darwish	(1997-02-20)20 February 1997 (aged 21)	Arminia Hannover
22	1GK	Naim Abuaker	(1995-01-20)20 January 1995 (aged 23)	Ahli Al-Khaleel
17	2DF	Mousa Farawi	(1998-03-22)22 March 1998 (aged 20)	Hilal Al-Quds
23	2DF	Mohammed Khalil	(1998-04-05)5 April 1998 (aged 20)	Hilal Ariha

* Over-aged player.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Indonesia (H)	4	3	0	1	11	3	+8	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Palestine	4	2	2	0	5	3	+2	8
3	Hong Kong	4	2	1	1	9	5	+4	7
4	Laos	4	1	0	3	4	8	−4	3
5	Chinese Taipei	4	0	1	3	0	10	−10	1

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

10 August 2018

19:00 UTC+7

Palestine	0–0	Chinese Taipei
	Report

Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi

Referee: Kim Dae-yong (South Korea)

12 August 2018

16:00 UTC+7

Palestine	2–1	Laos
Qumbor 83' Bahdari 90+5'	Report	Khochalern 14'

Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi

Referee: Bijan Heidari (Iran)

15 August 2018

19:00 UTC+7

Indonesia	1–2	Palestine
Irfan 23'	Report	Dabbagh 16' Darwish 51'

Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi

Referee: Nivon Robesh Gamini (Sri Lanka)

17 August 2018

16:00 UTC+7

Hong Kong	1–1	Palestine
Lam Ka Wai 57'	Report	Yousef 17'

Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi

Referee: Takuto Okabe (Japan)

Round of 16

23 August 2018

16:00 UTC+7

Palestine	0–1	Syria
	Report	Ashkar 73'

Patriot Candrabhaga Stadium, Bekasi

Referee: Ali Shaban (Kuwait)

Ju-jitsu

Palestine entered the ju-jitsu competition with 3 men's athletes.^[16]

Key:

ADV – Won by advantages.
RDC – Won by referee decision.
SUB – Won by submission.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mohammed Abdalhafiz	–77 kg	M Mumtaz (PAK) L 0–3	did not advance
Qais Maraaba	–85 kg	—	Bye	MH Radhi (UAE) W 2–0	A Murtazaliev (KGZ) L 0–100^SUB	Did not advance	M Joraýew (TKM) L 0–100^SUB	did not advance
Mohammad Hasan	–94 kg	—	Bye	I Juraev (UZB) DSQ	did not advance

Judo

Key:

1st number — Ippon
2nd number — Waza-ari
s — Shido

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Wesam Abu Rmilah	–81 kg	A Murodov (TJK) L 00s3–10	did not advance

Karate

Palestine participated in the karate competition at the Games with four men's athletes.^[17]

Kurash

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohanad Abu-Eida	–90 kg	Bye	D Sharma (IND) L 001−012	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Anas Altamari	50 m butterfly	27.56	37	did not advance
Adam Barghouthi	100 m freestyle	1:01.09	45	did not advance
	200 m freestyle	2:15.07	31	did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:45.98	19	did not advance
Loiy Juwaihan	50 m freestyle	26.15	45	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mera Abushammaleh	50 m freestyle	31.69	26	did not advance
	50 m breaststroke	37.10	22	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:20.70	21	did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:55.44	16	did not advance
Dania Nour	50 m freestyle	30.82	24	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	1:07.11	23	did not advance
	50 m butterfly	34.66	24	did not advance

Taekwondo

Kyorugi

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Yousef Abu-Al-Rob	Men's −58 kg	Shihab Al-Arifi (YEM) W 64–23	Ali Asiri (KSA) L 32–36	did not advance

Triathlon

Individual

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (39.6 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Abdallah Abushabab	Men's	19:56	0:27	56:50	0:27	41:42	1:59:22	17
Omar Abushabab	Men's	21:33	0:28	56:20	0:22	43:11	2:01:55	18

Volleyball

Beach volleyball

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Oppositions Scores	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Khaled Alarqan Mohammed Al-Qishawi	Men's tournament	Hossain – Ali (BAN): W 2–0 Ramadhan – Pribadi (INA): L 0–2 Lau – Wong (HKG): W 2–0	2 Q	Al-Jalbubi – Al-Hashmi (OMA) L 0–2	did not advance

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Hani Alqassass	−77 kg	115	16	141	14	256	14
Ahmed Alqassass	−85 kg	105	10	150	10	255	10

Wrestling

Palestine put up two men's wrestler competed in the freestyle event at the Games.^[18]

Key:

F – Victory by fall.
PP – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
PO – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
ST – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mousa Jouda	−57 kg	S Okassov (KAZ) L 0–11	did not advance						21
Wael Al-Haj	−86 kg	R Kurbanov (UZB) L 0–10	did not advance						16

References

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[1] "Indonesia prepares to light up the Energy of Asia for the Asian Games 2018". Ministry of Tourism, Republic of Indonesia. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.

[2] "Palestine". Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.

[3] "18th Asian Games: Participants". Olympic Council of Asia. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

[4] "Official Result Book Athletics" (PDF). Olympic Council of Asia. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.

[5] "Palestine placed in Group A for 2018 Asian Games". Football Palestine. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.

[6] "United Arab Emirates claim will participate in football at 2018 Asian Games after name omitted from draw". www.insidethegames.biz. 8 August 2018.

[7] "Bốc thăm lại ASIAD 2018: Việt Nam có thể vào bảng tử thần" (in Vietnamese). Zing News. 8 August 2018.

[8] "New draw for Asian Games football tournament to be held after Palestine and UAE missed out of first one". Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[9] "UAE, Palestine added to Asian Games soccer after left off roster". Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[10] "Asian Games 2018: Organisers shoehorn UAE, Palestine football teams into tournament to create groups with uneven numbers - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[11] "Palestinians, UAE added to Asian Games soccer draw". USA TODAY. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[12] "UAE replace Iraq in Group C". AFC.com. 8 August 2018.

[13] "Iraq withdrawal prompts partial redraw for Asian Games 2018". The Indian Express. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[14] "Draw for Asian Games football tournament held for third time". Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[15] "الفدائي الأولمبي يصل جاكرتا" (in Arabic). Palestinian Football Association. 8 August 2018. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[16] "Official Result Book Ju-jitsu" (PDF). Olympic Council of Asia. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

[17] "Official Result Book Karate" (PDF). Olympic Council of Asia. 27 August 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2018.

[18] "Athletes Wrestling Palestine". Asian Games 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

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Competitors

Athletics

Football

Men's tournament

Ju-jitsu

Judo

Karate

Kurash

Swimming

Taekwondo

Triathlon

Volleyball

Beach volleyball

Weightlifting

Wrestling

See also

References