Tolo News: Afghan taekwondo competitor Farzad Mansouri will face a Korean rival on Tuesday in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The competition will kick off on Tuesday at 7:45 am local Kabul time. Mansouri, 19, will compete in the 80kg category. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Afghan athletes said they feel well-prepared and ready for the Tokyo Olympic Games, which are scheduled to begin on July 23. Fahim Anwari will compete in swimming, Kmimia Yosefi and Shah Mahmood Noorzahi in athletics, Farzad Mansouri in taekwondo and Mahdi Yovari in the shooting category. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Four Afghan athletes have arrived in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 Games, Afghanistan’s National Olympic Committee announced on Sunday. The Olympics are scheduled to start on July 23. Fahim Anwari will compete in swimming, Kmimia Yosefi in athletics, Farzad Mansouri in taekwondo and Shah Mahmood Noorzahi in athletics. Mahdi Yovari, in the
Ariana: All-rounder Rashid Khan has been appointed the T20I Team Captain for Afghanistan. Meanwhile Najibullah Zadran has been appointed the National Team’s vice-captain for the format. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Keemia Yosefi and Shah Mamoud Noorzaye, the two Afghan athletes who will compete in the Tokyo Olympics, left Kabul on Sunday for Japan, Afghanistan’s National Olympic Committee announced. The Olympics are scheduled to start on July 23. Both Afghan athletes will represent Afghanistan in the 100 meter race in the athletics category and
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s U-17 national football team on Wednesday left Kabul for Dushanbe, Tajikistan for the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) Championship, Afghanistan’s Football Federation (AFF) announced. Afghans will face Iran in their first match of the competition on Friday. The tournament started in Dushanbe on June 30 and will end on July 9. Click
Tolo News: The Afghan Olympic Committee on Tuesday announced that five athletes will represent Afghanistan in the Tokyo Olympics. Fahim Anwari in swimming, Mahdi Yovari in shooting, Kmimia Yosefi in athletics, Farzad Mansouri in taekwondo and Shah Mahmood Noorzahi in athletics are the Afghan athletes who will represent the country in the Olympics. The Olympics
Ariana: Japan plans to ask Olympic athletes from Afghanistan and five other countries hit hard by the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus to have daily virus tests for seven days before leaving for the Games, a Japanese newspaper said on Sunday. Click here to read more (external link). Related Afghanistan: 1,532 New Cases
Ariana: Two Afghan athletes, Farzad Mansoori and Hussain Lutfi, each won a bronze medal in the 2021 Beirut Open Taekwondo Tournament which finished on Monday. The three-day tournament started on June 19 and 269 athletes from 44 countries participated. Click here to read more about (external link).
Tolo News: Afghanistan’s Mohsen Rezaee won a gold medal in the 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships by defeating his rival from South Korea in the final match in Lebanon on Thursday, becoming the first-ever Afghan to win a medal at the competition. The 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships were attended by 189 athletes from 21 countries. Click