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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Hayder Shkara
- Hayder Shkara is an Australian taekwondo athlete and family lawyer practicing in Sydney. Hayder Shkara fell in love with martial arts in 1998, as a 8-year-old child in the suburbs of Sydney.
- He made his first national team in 2006 and by 2011 was competing to represent Australia at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
- A loss to a New Zealand competitor in the Oceania qualifiers saw him miss out on selection and spiral into a severe depression.
- By his own admission, Hayder hit rock bottom, but he set himself the challenge to beat the same competitor to qualify for the Rio 2016 Games.
- Four years later, he achieved his dream and represented Australia in Brazil.At the 2016 Oceania Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament he defeated 2012 Olympian Vaughn Scott, the athlete against whom he lost against in qualification for the 2012 Olympics.
- This qualified him for the 2016 Olympics that will be his Olympic debut.
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