Overwhelmed with joy, Zakia Khudadadi threw herself and her equipment into the air as she celebrated making history Thursday by winning the Refugee Team’s first medal at a Paralympic Games.

Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal at the Paralympics. Khudadadi, originally from Afghanistan but now living ...

PARIS — Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal. Khudadadi won bronze in the women’s ...

“Darkness” is the first word that comes to Zakia Khudadadi’s mind when she thinks back to the events which unfolded in her native Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. It is a date etched in the a ...

The Paralympic refugee team has its first medal after athlete Zakia Khudadadi won the bronze medal in taekwondo on Thursday. Although she lost in the quarterfinals, she defeated Turkey’s Ekinci ...