Basheer Al Qudaimi

Basheer Al-Qudaimi made his Olympiad debut for Yemen in 2002. At Turin in 2006, he won all seven games on the reserve board and earned an individual gold medal. He won the Arab championship in Taiz in 2007 and became an international master in 2008. His later Olympiad appearances included first board for Yemen at Tromsø in 2014 and Batumi in 2018. He also played in the Asian Games and Pan Arab Games, earning an individual gold medal in the latter competition. In club chess, he helped Al-Wahda Sana'a finish third in the 2003 Arab Club Championship.