With a total of five medals, four gold and one silver, Algeria surpass their performance from the 2018 Mediterranean Games in just one day. All medals came from the Karate events placing the hosts on top of the medal table with Turkey in second with two medals and Greece in third with one medal. Karateka…
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TOKYO2020: Day 15
Team Algeria’s participation at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has come to a disappointing end today after the elimination of the last representative, Lamya Matoub in the Karate event. The last time Algeria came away from the Olympic Games with no medals was back in 2004, hosted in the Greek capital of Athens. History repeated itself…
TOKYO2020: DAY 12
Day 12 at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was full of eliminations for Algeria as athletes achieved disappointing results. Three wrestlers and two participants in open water swimming and in Kayak were eliminated. First up was Souad Cherouati in the 10km Marathon Swimming, which took place in open waters. The Algerian finished the race in…
TOKYO2020: DAY 10
Algeria continues to struggle to shine on the big stage as another three athletes failed to progress in the Greco-Wrestling and in the Canoe Sprint on day 10 of the Tokyo Olympic Games. In spite of being eliminated by the Japanese Kenechiro Fumita, Abdelkarim Fergat was given a second chance in a Repechage match against…
Algeria’s Judo Team Prevail
The Algerian national judo team finished first place in the individual events of the 2019 African Senior Championships, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. A total of 186 judokas including 72 women representing 29 countries were present at the continental meeting, with Algeria being the highest representing country with 17 judokas, just…