Version 1 of Zakia Khudadadi

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

1. Wikipedia, Zakia Khudadadi. ↩ ↩²

2. PBS NewsHour, Afghan para athlete makes history with first medal for the Refugee Paralympic Team, August 2024. ↩