Zakia Khudadadi
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Zakia Khudadadi is a Hazara para-taekwondo athlete who won the first ever medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team, a bronze at Paris 2024.
Zakia Khudadadi was born in Herat Province in 1998, and began taekwondo after seeing Rohullah Nikpai win Afghanistan's first Olympic medal.1
After the Taliban took Kabul in August 2021 she was evacuated, and competed at the Tokyo Paralympics.1 On 29 August 2024 in Paris she won bronze in the women's K44 47 kg, the first medal ever won by a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team.2
Footnotes
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Wikipedia, Zakia Khudadadi. ↩ ↩2
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PBS NewsHour, Afghan para athlete makes history with first medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team, August 2024. ↩