SWAT: Pakistan’s youngest female athlete in Taekwondo has won a gold medal in 34kg category at the 8th Fujairah Open Taekwondo Championship in Dubai.
Ayesha Ayaz, a nine-year-old student of Class IV from Swat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, started practising the sport at the age of three. She has already managed to earn honors of being a five-time district champion, two-time provincial champion and three-time national champion. Ayaz Naik, father of Ayesha, is also a Taekwondo athlete and runs his own academy in Swat.
Her younger brothers, six-year-old Zaryab Khan has won a gold medal at a national level while five-year-old Zaib Khan honoured with a silver medal. According to reports, no one from Pakistan has ever participated in Taekwondo Olympics competition so far. – Agencies
