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Para-taekwondo team win bronze at Olympic qualifiers
The Afghan National Para-Taekwondo Team won three bronze medals at the Asian qualifying matches for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Zakia Khodadadi, a female member of the team, in the 43kg weight category; Zabihullah Haidary, in 44kg weight category; and Matin Hotak in weight category of 43kg, all won bronze medals.
The Afghan athletes, unfortunately, failed to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The 2021 Asian Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament for the Tokyo Olympic Games took place in Jordan last week.
This comes after Afghanistan’s national taekwondo team missed the Asian qualifying matches for the Olympics after three members of the team tested positive for COVID-19 recently.
According to reports, Sumayya Ghulami, and Zahra Mirzaee, two female members of the squad and their coach were infected with the virus.
The Afghan taekwondo team had been preparing for the last three years to participate at the Olympics.