Achievements · Lebanese Taekwondo Nationals 2026
The cup stays home. 36 years in a row.
Mont La Salle — Champions Elite Taekwondo: champions of Lebanon in the seniors category, men and women, 2026. Thirty-six consecutive national titles, in a run that began in the early 1990s and has never been interrupted.
One school, thirty-six trophies
Behind every one of those thirty-six trophies is the same school: the dojang of Ain Saadeh, a staff that manages the decisive moments, and depth in every weight class. It is the school that produced Andrea Paoli, Lebanon’s first taekwondo Olympian and flag bearer at London 2012; Michel Samaha, who won the country’s only Youth Olympic medal in Singapore in 2010; and Laetitia Aoun, fifth at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Mont La Salle, Champions Elite Taekwondo — champions of Lebanon, seniors, men and women, for the 36th consecutive year. The athletes in this video are the next chapter of that history.
2025 Lebanese Championship — team standings
Men
| 1. Mont La Salle | 30 pts |
| 2. Al-Liwaa al-Rafid | 15 pts |
| 3. Antranik Antelias | 10 pts |
Women
| 1. Mont La Salle | 29 pts |
| 2. Anwar | 18 pts |
| 3. Besançon | 9 pts |
National champions from our ranks in 2025 included Marc Zarifeh (−54 kg), Fouad Zarifeh (−63 kg) and Sara Saliba (−46 kg). Peter Zarifeh, Anthony Naoufal, Charbel Raad, Giorgio Mansour, Ahmad Farhat, Ahmad Ali Ghosn, Mohammad Jaroush, Karina Chouli, Mariella Bou Habib, Rea Chouli, Laetitia Aoun and Carla Boustani also reached the podium.
Source: Lebanese Taekwondo Federation results as reported by This is Beirut / Ici Beyrouth, October 2025.
On the world stage
- Paris 2024 Olympic Games — Laetitia Aoun (Mont La Salle) reaches the semifinal and finishes fifth, Lebanon’s best Olympic result in any sport in 44 years.
- Asian Games 2026, Aichi-Nagoya — Laetitia Aoun qualifies in the −57 kg category after reaching the quarterfinals of the 2026 Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar.
- Deaflympics Tokyo 2025 — Sara Saliba qualifies to represent Lebanon.
- London 2012 Olympic Games — Andrea Paoli (Mont La Salle), five-time national champion, becomes Lebanon’s first senior Olympic qualifier in taekwondo and carries the flag at the opening ceremony.
- Arab Club Champions Championship 1997 — Mont La Salle finishes second among the champion clubs of the Arab world.
The founder’s record
- Lebanese champion 1999 (−58 kg); national team captain until 2007; 37 national and international medals (1999–2007).
- Silver, West Asian Games 1997 · Silver, Francophone World Cup Paris 2002 · Gold and MVP, Mediterranean Championship Tunisia 2002.
- World Championships 2005; Asian Games Busan 2002 and Doha 2006.
- National Head Coach 2010–2016: first Youth Olympic medal (Michel Samaha, Singapore 2010), first world junior medal (Bassel Khalil, Mexico 2010), first senior Olympic qualification (Andrea Paoli, London 2012).
- President, Lebanese Taekwondo Federation, since 2016 — three world medals and more than thirty Asian Championship and Asian Games medals for Lebanon during his tenure.
- Taekwondo Hall of Fame® inductee, Jersey City, 2026.
