eam Lagos Taekwondo Poomsae gold medallist at the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival, Aminat Idrees, beats Super Falcons captain, Asisat Oshoala to claim the ‘Most Outstanding Young Person in Sport’ at the Lagos Youth Awards, The PUNCH reports.
Fighter wins second straight world championship medal after finishing 5th at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Ukraine’s Yuliya Lypetska continued her impressive year by winning bronze at the 2021 World Para Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul, Turkey this weekend.
Sayed Anwar Hussaini, Afghanistan’s ITF Taekwondo Champion, has won several golds, silver, and bronze medals at national, international, and South Asian competitions, and is now going to fight in MMA fight night held by the Indian MMA organization.
The taekwondo governing body in South Korea has awarded former President Donald Trump with an honorary ninth-degree black belt at Mar-a-Lago this past weekend, the New York Post reports.
Chris Barnett, aka “Beastboy,” aka “Huggy Bear,” comes from a family of taekwondo practitioners. Mom and dad are black belts, like he is. His daughter’s rank is brown, and his son’s is orange.
According to The Guardian, female taekwondo and karate competitors are forced to practise in secret since the Taliban banned women from competing in sports.
HERAT: Zarghunna Noori has always been a fighter, but the 22-year-old taekwondo champion – who dreamt of representing Afghanistan at the Olympics – says she has finally met her match. “In sports when we lose we are left feeling terrible,” she told AFP at her home in the western city of Herat.
