On the 25th, the third day of the Tokyo Olympics, the players of the refugee team, made up of athletes who fled their home countries due to conflicts, showed a good fight in the Taekwondo Women's 57kg class.
23-year-old from Iran, Kimia Arizaday Zenulin, who participated in the last Rio de Janeiro Games wearing a scarf "hijab" for Muslim women, won the bronze medal and became the first female Iranian medalist. I did.
However, in January of last year, he went into exile in Germany after criticizing the Iranian authorities, saying, "I am just one of the many women who have been oppressed in Iran." I played.
On the 25th, he first played against a player from his homeland Iran in the qualifying, and against the opponent who wore a "hijab", Arizaday Zenulin faced with long hair tied behind him and won 18-9.
In the following first round, he advanced to the semi-finals by beating British player Jade Jones, who had won gold medals in two consecutive tournaments, 16-12, and in the quarter-finals 9-8 against Chinese players.
After that, in the semi-finals, he lost to the Russian Olympic Committee players 3-10, and in the bronze medal bronze medal bronze medal, he played against Turkish players and aggressively attacked to the end, but lost 6-8.
Alizaday Zenulin, who missed the first medal as a player of the refugee team formed from the previous tournament, showed a good fight to finish in 4th place.