GOLD FOR YOUNGSTERS IN LUXEMBOURG

Two of Jordan’s best up and coming Taekwondo fighters have won gold medals at the Luxembourg Open G1 Championship.

Natalie Hamidi, who has already qualified to the Youth Olympics later this year, and Fahed Ammar dominated their weight categories at the prestigious event that welcomed more than 800 athletes from 35 countries.

Hamidi won the -63kg class by beating Germany’s Meiki Unrau, 4-1, in the final. Earlier, she beat the Czech Republic’s Micheala Razimova, and Ukraine’s Juliana Lipatova.

Meanwhile, Ammar took gold in the -78kg event after beating Germany’s Nick Freitag, 19-9, in the final.

Earlier, he beat another German, Abdullah Sefestsi, Greece’s Stavros Milkas.