Balochi origin Madiea Ghafoor to represent Netherlands as an athlete on Friday, she bagged a bronze medal in the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Estonia, where she finished third in the women’s 400m event. She will make a history of first Balochi girl in Rio Olympics 2016 and said she didn’t had an idea about that.
According to Foreign media reports; Madiea revealed she was unaware that she was the first female Baloch to feature at the Olympics. The youngster, who will be representing the Netherlands in the 4x400m relay along with her team in Rio.
23 year old said “I feel honoured to be a part of this huge event and to be an inspiration for the Baloch people, especially the youth,” she said. “I had no idea I was the first Baloch girl to participate at the Games until someone informed me about that. This has made me even more determined to do the best I can.”
She was born and raised in Amsterdam. Her parents though belong to Lyari, and she is the granddaughter of the late Lal Baksh Rind, a senior politician whose diverse work included striving for the betterment of the relatively impoverished locality in Karachi.
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