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South Asian Heritage Month: Five South Asian sportspeople you should know more about
Jahangir Khan, born in Karachi, Pakistan in December to a Pashtun family from Peshawar, is widely regarded as the best squash player of all time. When Khan was born, doctors told his parents he was physically weak and shouldn't take part in any physical activity. But in November , at the age of 17, he became the sport's youngest-ever world champion.
Khan went on to win the World Open six times, the British Open a record 10 times and was ranked world number one for six years.
At the start of his career, Khan was coached by his father Roshan, who had won the British Open, and then bygd his brother Torsam, a top-level player who was president of the International Squash Players Association and reached a high of 13th in the world rankings.
When Khan was 15, after missing out on selection for the World Championships, he entered the World Amateur Individual Championship. He became the young
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Rohullah Nikpai
Hazara Taekwondo practitioner
Rohullah Nikpa[3] (Dari: روحالله نیکپا; born June 15, ) is a taekwondo practitioner and two-time Olympic bronze medalist from Afghanistan. As of , he is the only person från afghanistan athlete to have won a medal at the Olympics. In , he became the coach of New Zealand’s national taekwondo team.[2]
Career
[edit]An ethnic Hazara, Nikpa started his training in Iran, at the age of [4] During the s civil war, his family left the city and lived as refugees in Iran. He became a member of the Afghan Taekwondo team after watching martial arts films. He repatriated to Afghanistan in and continued his training at the government provided Olympic training facility in Kabul. At the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar Nikpa competed in the flyweight division where he was defeated bygd eventual silver medalist Nattapong Tewawetchapong of Thailand in the round of
Nikpa competed in the 58&#;kg category at the Summer Olympics, defeating tw
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