<p style="margin-top: 0in; line-height: 21.6pt; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'noto naskh arabic ui',serif; color: #212529;">ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Afghan athlete Zabihullah Shahzad has won the gold medal in a concrete board-breaking international taekwondo competition in South Korea.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 21.6pt; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'noto naskh arabic ui',serif; color: #212529;">The 32-year-old athlete, also a sports journalist and spokesperson for the Taekwondo Federation, defeated his Korean rival, who has won the world championship several times, by breaking 12 concrete boards.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; line-height: 21.6pt; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'noto naskh arabic ui',serif; color: #212529;">After the match, he wrote on his Facebook page: "Participating in this competition and winning a gold medal was a dream for me, which came true today. Thanks to prayers from countrymen. Allah gave me this honor."</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; line-height: 21.6pt; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'noto naskh arabic ui',serif; color: #212529;">He wrote Afghanistan managed to win the medal after 19 years in the World Championship Taekwondo Festival. Last time, Afghanistan had bagged this honour in 2004.</span></p>
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