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Rohullah Nikpai

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Rohullah Nikpai
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Rohullah Nikpai is a Hazara taekwondo athlete who won Afghanistan's first Olympic medal at Beijing 2008, and a second bronze at London 2012.

Rohullah Nikpai won bronze in the men's 58 kg taekwondo at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the first Olympic medal for Afghanistan.1 At London in 2012 he won bronze again, in the 68 kg category.12

He comes from the Hazara minority.2 His win inspired others, among them Zakia Khudadadi.3

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia, Afghanistan at the 2012 Summer Olympics. ↩ ↩2

  2. Global Voices, Afghanistan: When Bronze Means More than Gold, 2012. ↩ ↩2

  3. Wikipedia, Zakia Khudadadi. ↩