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Nepal wins bronze in World Para Taekwondo Championship

Kathmandu, Feb 6 : Nepal’s Bikram Shrestha has won the bronze medal in the eighth World Para Taekwondo 
Championship- 2019 in Turkey. In the competition held this morning, Shrestha beat a Morocco rival to 
win the medal towards one Poomsae under the P-32 male genre, said coach Kabiraj Negi Lama. Russia won
 the gold and the silver was clinched by Croatia.

Along with Shrestha, Italy’s Ricardo Zimmerman won the bronze. This is the debut of Nepal in Poomsae of world para taekwondo championship. A total of 425 players from 69 countries are competing in the championship.