22 September 2008
Tunis — Tunisia's Issam Barhoumi won on Sunday the gold medal in the fourth Wushu Kung-Fu World Cup in Harbin, China.
Issam Barhoumi defeated in the finals Iran's Islam Ghorbani 2-0. He had previously defeated the American Gary Chandler by the same score of 2-0.
The World Cup in the discipline gathers the 4 best fighters in the World Championship which took place in November 2007 in China, during which Barhoumi had won the bronze medal.
Born in 1978, Issam Barhoumi already has a 14 year fighting experience behind him.
A fighter not only by trade but in essence, Barhoumi has won a long string of national and international competitions.
He was four time champion of Tunisia in full contact and wushu kung-fu, two times champion of kick boxing, five times champion of Jiu-Jitsu; he was also Afro-Asian Champion of wushu kung fu in 2002, and the Arab champion in the game, in 2005.
Martial arts are a passion for Barhoumi, a philosophy of life.
His consecration in China, is also a reward for the sheer determination and stamina which drove a little boy full of ambition from Sidi Bouzid, a small town in southern Tunisia, to the highest march of the podium, in a sport which originated thousands of miles from where he was born.
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