Nouridine Issaka
Nigerien taekwondo athlete
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Nouridine Garba Issaka (born 28 October 2005)[1] is a taekwondo athlete from Niger. He won a gold medal at the 2023 All Africa Games and a gold medal at the 2023 African Taekwondo Championships.
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| Full name | Nouridine Garba Issaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Nigerien | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 October 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
He competed at the Islamic Solidarity Games and won bronze in the Men's 58 kg in Konya, Turkey.[2]
In 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria, he won bronze in the -55kg category at the 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships.[3]
He reached the quarter finals at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in the Men's flyweight category in Baku.[4]
In November 2023, at the age of 18 years-old, he won gold in the 58kg at the African Taekwondo Championships, held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[5][6]
He won a gold medal in the -58kg category in March 2024 at the delayed 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana.[7][8]
He competed in the −58 kg category at the 2024 African Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Dakar, Senegal and qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9][10]
