Khetam Abuawad

Khetam Kamal Hasan Abuawad (born 8 October 1974) is a Jordanian para table tennis player who has spina bifida and has won two medals at the Summer Paralympics and has been competing for Jordan internationally since 1998.

Her first international competition was the ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games in Stoke Mandeville in 1998,[2] where she also won her first major title: she won two gold medals for singles class 5 and women's team class 2-5 and a silver medal for the wheelchair open competition.

In 2002, Abuawad won a bronze medal along with Fatmeh Al Azzam and Maha Al-Bargouthi in the World Team Cup in Roermund, Netherlands.

One year on, she went on to win two golds at the Al Watani Table Tennis Championships for the second consecutive time in her sporting career.

She won her match against Stephanie Palasse of France but lost to Ren Guixiang of China, she was however qualified to advance into the quarterfinals.

Abuawad was defeated in straight sets in her group play in the singles' competition by China's Ren Gui Xiang and Chinese Taipei's Wei Mei Hui.

The semifinals saw China defeating the Jordanian team in 3 sets, after their loss, they were up against France in the bronze medal match.

She was positioned in first position after winning all three of her games in the group play at the women's singles class 5, she later went on to compete against Ren Guixiang of China where she lost the game, Abuawad then played the bronze medal match against Andrea Zimmerer of Germany but unfortunately she was heavily defeated and placed in fourth place in the singles' competition.

[7] Abuawad did well in her group play at the 2012 Summer Paralympics after winning both of her games in straight sets against Kimie Bessho of Japan and Marta Makishi of Argentina.

Abuawad won both her games in the group play against Caroline Tabib of Israel and Maria Paredes of Mexico.

She went into the quarterfinals against Ingela Lundback who defeated her again after they last met in the 2012 Summer Paralympics' bronze medal match where Abuawad previously lost to the Swedish table tennis player.