Parfait Hakizimana (born 1988) is a Burundian parataekwondo practitioner who currently resides in Rwanda.
When he was twenty his father died on a motorbike and he decided to leave the tribal conflict in Burundi.
[3] In June 2021, Hakizimana was chosen with four men and a woman to represent refugees at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.
The six will be led by the Chef de Mission Ileana Rodriguez who was previously a parathlete swimmer for the US in 2012.
[1] He hoped to win a medal at the paralympics and to return to the refugee camp where he has a young daughter.