Version 2 of Rohullah Nikpai

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. ↩