Nouridine Issaka

Nouridine Garba Issaka (born 28 October 2005)^[1] is a taekwondo athlete from Niger. He won a gold medal at the 2023 All Africa Games and a gold medal at the 2023 African Taekwondo Championships.

Nouridine Issaka

Personal information
Full name	Nouridine Garba Issaka
Nationality	Nigerien
Born	(2005-10-28) 28 October 2005 (age 19)
Medal record Men's taekwondo Representing  Niger African Games 2023 Accra 58 kg African Championships 2023 Abidjan 58 kg World Junior Championships 2022 Sofia 55 kg

Career

He competed at the Islamic Solidarity Games and won bronze in the Men's 58 kg in Konya, Turkey.^[2]

In 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria, he won bronze in the -55kg category at the 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships.^[3]

He reached the quarter finals at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in the Men's flyweight category in Baku.^[4]

In November 2023, at the age of 18 years-old, he won gold in the 58kg at the African Taekwondo Championships, held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.^[5][6]

He won a gold medal in the -58kg category in March 2024 at the delayed 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana.^[7][8]

He competed in the −58 kg category at the 2024 African Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in Dakar, Senegal and successfully qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.^[9][10]