{"id":901535,"date":"2026-09-22T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901535\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:42:14","slug":"fariba-hashimi-afghanistan-cyclist-who-dressed-as-man-to-avoid-taliban-wins-asian-games-silver-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/901535\/","title":{"rendered":"Fariba Hashimi: Afghanistan cyclist who dressed as man to avoid Taliban wins Asian Games silver medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hashimi followed her sister Yulduz, also an international cyclist, into the sport at the age of 15, despite danger in their home province of Faryab.<\/p>\n

“I always dressed as a man to go to training, wearing two or three different masks so \u200cpeople \u2060would not recognise or attack me,” Hashimi previously told Reuters., external<\/a><\/p>\n

Hashimi said she would have to avoid stones being thrown at her whilst riding her bike.<\/p>\n

Hashimi now lives and trains in Italy thanks to help from the Italian former world champion Alessandra Cappellotto.<\/p>\n

Looking back at life in Afghanistan, Hashimi said the Taliban “took away our freedom”.<\/p>\n

“This silver medal can show a lot of resilience from Afghan women, and I’m really happy,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’m not alone, I know that behind me millions of women, from many countries, have the same dream and they are standing with me.”<\/p>\n

Hashimi and her sister competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics and are now setting their sights on the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n

“I never want to give up,” Hashimi said, “and hopefully we can see [what can happen] again in Los Angeles.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hashimi followed her sister Yulduz, also an international cyclist, into the sport at the age of 15, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-901535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}