The Most Famous

ATHLETES from Afghanistan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Athletes. The pantheon dataset contains 6,025 Athletes, 6 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 121st most number of Athletes behind Iceland, and Senegal.

Top 6

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Athletes of all time. This list of famous Afghan Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Paweł Wojciechowski (b. )

With an HPI of 44.79, Paweł Wojciechowski is the most famous Afghan Athlete.  Their biography has been translated into 8 different languages on wikipedia.

Paweł Wojciechowski may refer to: Paweł Wojciechowski (economist) (born 1960), Polish economist Paweł Wojciechowski (footballer born 1984), Polish footballer Paweł Wojciechowski (pole vaulter) (born 1989), Polish pole vaulter Paweł Wojciechowski (footballer born 1990), Polish footballer

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2. Masoud Azizi (b. 1985)

With an HPI of 32.68, Masoud Azizi is the 2nd most famous Afghan Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Masoud Azizi (Dari / Persian: مسعود عزیزی; born 2 February 1985) is an Afghan athlete. His personal best time in the 100m sprint is 11.11 seconds, achieved in April 2005 in Mecca. In 2013 Azizi failed a doping test at the 2013 World Championships, and was suspended for two years.

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3. Tahmina Kohistani (b. 1989)

With an HPI of 32.39, Tahmina Kohistani is the 3rd most famous Afghan Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Tahmina Kohistani (Persian: تهمینه کوهستانی; born 8 June 1989, Kapisa Province) is an Afghan runner at 100 metres. Kohistani competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, making a new personal best of 14.42 seconds in the heats of the 100 metres distance. She did not advance to the first round. Her previous personal best at the 100 metres was 15.00 at a competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland in 2008. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

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4. Nigara Shaheen (b. 1993)

With an HPI of 25.69, Nigara Shaheen is the 4th most famous Afghan Athlete.  Her biography has been translated into 5 different languages.

Nigara Shaheen (born 7 June 1993) is an Afghan judoka based in Canada.

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5. Abdullah Sediqi (b. 1996)

With an HPI of 24.49, Abdullah Sediqi is the 5th most famous Afghan Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 6 different languages.

Abdullah Sediqi (born 25 December 1996) is a Taekwondo athlete from Afghanistan.

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6. Farzad Mansouri (b. 2002)

With an HPI of 21.32, Farzad Mansouri is the 6th most famous Afghan Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 6 different languages.

Farzad Mansouri (born 19 March 2002) is an Afghan taekwondo practitioner. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Mansouri and Kamia Yousufi carried Afghanistan's flag at the Opening Ceremony.

People

Pantheon has 6 people classified as Afghan athletes born between 1985 and 2002. Of these 6, 6 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Afghan athletes include Paweł Wojciechowski, Masoud Azizi, and Tahmina Kohistani. As of April 2024, 6 new Afghan athletes have been added to Pantheon including Paweł Wojciechowski, Masoud Azizi, and Tahmina Kohistani.

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