Danish Manzoor is an Indian National Taekwondo player hails from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory). He has represented team India in World Taekwondo Octagon Diamond G4 Olympic ranking and Israel Open G2 Olympic ranking Championships held at Gangwon, South Korea and Ramla, Israel. In 2019, he was also among the top players at the "International Olympic Ranking G1 Championship" which was held in Hyderabad. He has been awarded with ‘Best Male Athlete’ of the tournament in the Tokey Memorial Open Taekwondo Championship (Kyorugi and Poomsae) held in April 2021 at Ropar, Punjab.

Career:

Danish started his sports career in 2010 at the age of 13, when he won a bronze medal at Indore Stadium Srinagar in the Inter-District Taekwondo championship.He was firstly practicing Taekwondo in Baramulla Taekwondo Academy at Rangwara under his first coach Ashfaq Ahmad Wani. In 2011, he won gold in state-level tournament. In 2013, he participated in 33rd Junior National Taekwondo (Kyorugi & Poomsae) Championship which was held from October 18 to 20, 2013 at Sports Complex, Puducherry. In 2015, he participated in National-level taekwondo tournament in Cuttack, Odisha, where he reached the quarter finals. In 2016, he played another 54-Kg weight category National-level tournament held from 17th to 21st May 2016 in Mahaveer (Rajasthan), where he got silver medal which made him eligible for Asian Championship and Asian Indoor Games trial. In 2018, he joined Atul International Taekwondo Academy and is playing in all tournaments under the coach Atul Pangotra.

He was also among the top players at the "International Olympic Ranking G1 Championship", which was held from 11th to 16th June 2019 at the Vijay Kotla Reddy Bhaskar Stadium in Hyderabad.

In April 2021, Danish was awarded the ‘Best Male Athlete’ of the tournament at the Tokey Memorial Open Taekwondo Championship (Kyorugi and Poomsae), where he represented J&K and won a silver medal in the tournament, held in Ropar, Punjab. He is playing Under 54kg (World) and 58kg (Olympic) weight category. He is aiming to represent India at Olympics. In 2022, Danish has been appointed as Brand Ambassador for Fit India Movement.