Zakia Khudadadi (Hazaragi: ذکیه خدادادی; born 29 September 1998)[1][2] is a Hazara parataekwondo practitioner.

[6][7][3] She also officially became the first Afghan female sportsperson to participate in an international sporting event after the Taliban takeover and the first-ever member of the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal.

[8] Her life story is featured in the France Télévisions documentary A corps perdus directed by Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai.

[10] She received wild card entry to participate in the delayed Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympics, where she was chosen as one of the two competitors from Afghanistan alongside track athlete Hossain Rasouli.

[12][13] Khudadadi went into hiding from the Taliban and publicly requested immediate help in order to safely leave Afghanistan and take part at the Tokyo Paralympics.

On 28 August 2021, Khudadadi, alongside her male compatriot Hossain Rasouli, arrived in Tokyo after being airlifted from Kabul to Paris by the Royal Australian Air Force as part of international evacuation efforts, ending the uncertainties which prevailed regarding Afghanistan's participation at the Tokyo Paralympics.

[5][17][18] The President of the International Paralympic Committee, Andrew Parsons, announced that both of the Afghan athletes would not be available for interviews and that permission had been granted to them to skip the usual press conferences.

[1] Khudadadi subsequently qualified to the repechage round but lost to Ukraine's Viktoriia Marchuk.