# Chaima Toumi
**Chaima Toumi** (شيماء التومي; born 2003) is a Tunisian taekwondo competitor who fights mainly in the women's featherweight division (F-57 kg) and represented Tunisia at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, where she placed joint seventh in the featherweight event.[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html) • [2](https://www.olympedia.org/countries/TUN/sports/TKW.3)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 2003, Tunisia[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html) |
| Country | Tunisia (TUN)[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e) |
| Olympic result | Women's featherweight (-57 kg), Paris 2024, placed =7[2](https://www.olympedia.org/countries/TUN/sports/TKW.3) |
| Continental titles | African Championships gold in 2021 (Dakar, -53 kg) and 2023 (Abidjan, -57 kg); African Games gold at Accra 2023 (-57 kg)[4](https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000436147) |
| Other major medals | Silver, Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games (-57 kg); bronze, 2026 Mediterranean Games, Taranto (-57 kg)[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e) • [4](https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000436147) |
| World Taekwondo record | 25 wins, 11 losses (69.4%); Olympic ranking 9 in women's -57 kg[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e) |
| Junior career | Cadet world bronze at Sharm el Sheikh 2017 (-44 kg) and youth world bronze at Hammamet 2018 (-46 kg)[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html) |
## Career
Toumi competed internationally as a cadet from 2017, winning the Turkish Open, Austrian Open, and Serbia Open in cadet weight classes and taking bronze at the 2017 World Championships in Sharm el Sheikh (-44 kg) and at the 2018 youth World Championships in Hammamet (-46 kg).[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html) As a youth fighter she won the Serbian Open and [French Open](https://www.edgepedia.org/french-open) in 2019 and took silver at the German Open and Luxembourg Open.[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html)
**Continental success.** In senior competition she won her first African title at the 2021 African Championships in Dakar in the -53 kg class, beating Chinazum Ruth Nwosu 11-2 in the semifinal and Mennatalla Medhat 13-2 in the final.[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html) She added a second African title at the 2023 African Championships in Abidjan, this time at -57 kg, and won the -57 kg event at the 13th [African Games](https://www.edgepedia.org/african-games) in Accra in March 2024.[4](https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000436147) • [5](https://taekwondo.tv/en/athletes/16844-chaima-toumi)
## Paris 2024 Olympics
Toumi qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games through the African qualification tournament in Dakar, where she finished second in the -57 kg class.[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html) In the Olympic women's featherweight draw she beat Faith Dillon of the United States in the round of 16, then lost the quarterfinal 2-1 to Nahid KiyaniChandeh of the Refugee Olympic Team's former federation listing (IRI), leaving her in the joint-seventh position.[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e) • [2](https://www.olympedia.org/countries/TUN/sports/TKW.3)
## Later results
In 2025 Toumi won a run of open-tournament titles at -57 kg: the Fujairah 5th Arab Cup and Fujairah Open in February, the WT President's Cup Africa in April, and the Kazakhstan Open in August.[5](https://taekwondo.tv/en/athletes/16844-chaima-toumi) • [6](https://www.tap.info.tn/en/Portal-Sports/18410747-taekwondo-tunisian) At the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games she reached the final, taking silver after a 0-2 loss to Maria Clara Pacheco of Brazil.[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e)
In 2026 she moved between weight classes, taking bronze at -62 kg at the Chuncheon Korea Open and bronze at -57 kg at the [Mediterranean Games](https://www.edgepedia.org/mediterranean-games) in Taranto, where she lost her semifinal to Amina Dehhaoi of Morocco.[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e) • [4](https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000436147) At the Taiyuan 2026 World Taekwondo Women's Open Championships she won five matches before losing the final to Fadia Khirfan of Jordan, earning silver.[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e)
## Record and standing
[World Taekwondo](https://www.edgepedia.org/world-taekwondo)'s athlete profile lists a record of 25 wins and 11 losses (69.4%) and an Olympic ranking of 9 in the women's -57 kg division; she has not won a medal at the Olympic Games, World Taekwondo Championships, Grand Prix, or Grand Slam series.[3](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e) The TaekwondoData database, which counts all available fights including junior events, records 71 registered fights with 51 wins (71.8%) across 35 international tournaments.[1](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html)
## References
1. [TOUMI, Chaima, TaekwondoData](https://www.taekwondodata.com/chaima-toumi.arm5.html)
2. [Tunisia in Taekwondo, Olympedia](https://www.olympedia.org/countries/TUN/sports/TKW.3)
3. [Profile "TOUMI Chaima", World Taekwondo](https://results.worldtaekwondo.org/profile/a5be00a4-c8c5-4078-a93a-0a77ec46135e)
4. [Chaima Toumi, InterSportStats](https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000436147)
5. [Chaima TOUMI, Taekwondo Results & Achievements, taekwondo.tv](https://taekwondo.tv/en/athletes/16844-chaima-toumi)
6. [Taekwondo: Tunisian Chaima Toumi wins gold at Fujairah International Championship, TAP](https://www.tap.info.tn/en/Portal-Sports/18410747-taekwondo-tunisian)
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