SEIF Eissa, the Egyptian taekwondo champion, won the bronze medal at the penultimate Grand Prix of 2018 taking place in Manchester. Damon Sansum of Britain and Raul Martinez Garcia of Spain took the gold and silver medals while the bronze medals were claimed by Eissa and Nikita Rafalovich of Uzbekistan. Eissa was supposed to meet Sansum but suffered a hand injury, forcing him to forfeit the match and settle for a bronze. Prior to Manchester, Eissa was scooping up medals. He took the bronze in the African Championship in Agadir, Morocco, the silver medal in Al-Hassan Open in Amman, Jordan, the bronze medal in the Austrian Open and the bronze in the Grand Prix in Taoyuan. Eissa is sponsored by Al-Ahram Establishment and is one of Egypt's biggest hopes in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.