- Nesar Ahmad Bahave
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Medal record Competitor for 
AfghanistanMen’s taekwondo World Championships Silver 2007 Beijing Lightweight Asian Games Silver 2010 Guangzhou Welterweight Bronze 2006 Doha Lightweight Nesar Ahmad Bahave ( نثاراحمد بهاوي) (born March 28, 1985 in Kapisa Province) is from Afghanistan Taekwondo practitioner. He won the silver medal in the lightweight category (72 kg) at the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships, edging out 2004 Olympic Champion Hadi Saei in the semifinals. It was the first international medal for Afghanistan in any sport.
Nesar won the bronze medal in lightweight at the 2006 Asian Games, and competed in the -68kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics. On August 8, 2008 at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, he was the flagbearer for Afghanistan. Nesar won a Gold medal in the 2009 Asian Martial Arts Games for taekwondo in the weight of 72kg.
He won the silver medal in the Men's under 80 kg category in the 2010 Asian Games.
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