Ayoub Barraj
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| Born | 27 May 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Amateur wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ayoub Barraj (born 27 May 1997)[1] is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler. At the African Wrestling Championships he won a total of four medals: three gold medals and one bronze medal.[2]
Career[edit]
He represented Tunisia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China without winning a medal.[1] He finished in fifth place in the boys' freestyle 76 kg event.[1] In 2015, he won one of the bronze medals in the 74 kg event at the African Wrestling Championships held in Alexandria, Egypt.
In 2018, he won the gold medal in the 74 kg event at the African Wrestling Championships held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.[3] He also won the gold medal in the 79 kg event in 2019 and 2020.[4][5]
He represented Tunisia at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and he won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 86 kg event.[6] In the final, he defeated Fateh Benferdjallah of Algeria. In the same year, he also competed in the men's freestyle 79 kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan where he was eliminated in his first match by Tajmuraz Salkazanov of Slovakia.[7] Salkazanov went on to win one of the bronze medals.[7]
In 2020, he competed in the men's 79 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[8] In 2021, he competed at the African & Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He did not qualify as he lost his first match against Augusto Midana of Guinea-Bissau.[9] He also failed to qualify for the Olympics at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.[10]
Achievements[edit]
| Year | Tournament | Venue | Result | Event |
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| 2015 | African Wrestling Championships | Alexandria, Egypt | 3rd | Freestyle 74 kg |
| 2018 | African Wrestling Championships | Port Harcourt, Nigeria | 1st | Freestyle 74 kg |
| 2019 | African Wrestling Championships | Hammamet, Tunisia | 1st | Freestyle 79 kg |
| African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 1st | Freestyle 86 kg | |
| 2020 | African Wrestling Championships | Algiers, Algeria | 1st | Freestyle 79 kg |
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2020.
- ^ "Athlete Profile". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ "Senegalese clinches eighth gold at African Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ^ Pavitt, Michael (9 February 2020). "Kherbache delivers home success on final day of African Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "2020 African Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ "2019 African Games Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
- ^ a b "2019 World Wrestling Championships Results" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "2021 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
External links[edit]
- Ayoub Barraj at the International Wrestling Database
- Ayoub Barraj at the International Wrestling Database
- Ayoub Barraj at Olympics.com
- Ayoub Barraj at Olympedia
