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EXPLAINED: Champion refugee wrestler seeks to represent australia | Rare Historical Photos

Mustafa Nikqadam has honed his skills as a wrestler after spending seven years on Nauru. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

With the Paris Olympics less than two months away, champion wrestler Mustafa Nikqadam is training kids in a loud gym in western Sydney.

An asylum seeker who spent seven years in Nauru, the 28-year-old grew up between Iran and Afghanistan where he escaped the iron-fisted rule of the Taliban who killed his father when he was a teenager.

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