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competed at the

2022 Mediterranean Games The 2022 Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2022, links=, lit=, translit=ʾAlʿāb al-Baḥr al-ʾAbyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ 2022), officially known as the XIX Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran ...

Oran Oran ( ar, وَهران, Wahrān) is a major coastal city located in the north-west of Algeria. It is considered the second most important city of Algeria after the capital Algiers, due to its population and commercial, industrial, and cultural ...

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over 10 days from 25 June to 5 July 2022 with delegation of 522 persons (324 athletes in 24 sports), including 293 men and 182 women. The country finished the Games with 53 medals amongst all nations: 20 gold, 17 silver, and 16 bronze. This is the best participation in the history of Algeria, breaking the number of the

2001 Mediterranean Games The XIV Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2001), commonly known as the 2001 Mediterranean Games, were the 14th Mediterranean Games held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 2-15 September 2001, where 2,991 athletes ( ...

. The sports with the most medals were

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and

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. The first medals Algeria earned were in

, where Algeria won six medals, including four golds by Cylia Ouikene, Louiza Abouriche and Chaima Midi for women's and Oussama Zaid for men's. In

, Algeria participated with fifteen men's and women's boxers, 13 of whom won medals including five golds through Jugurtha Ait Bekka, Roumaysa Boualam, Hadjila Khelif, Imane Khelif and Yahia Abdelli. The third specialty in terms of medals is strong

with a total of 13 medals, including five golds, by

Bilal Tabti Bilal Tabti (born 7 June 1993) is an Algerian athlete specialising in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He placed 13th at the 2015 World Championships, but failed to reach the final at the 2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and E ...

in 3000 m steeplechase,

Yasser Triki Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki ( ar, ياسر تريكي; born 24 March 1997) is an Algerian athlete competing in the long jump and triple jump. He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2017 Summer Universiade. He also won multiple medals at re ...

in Triple jump, Bilel Afer in high jump, Djamel Sedjati in 800 m and finally the Men's 4×400 m relay team. In other sports participation was different and in

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duo Koceila Mammeri and Youcef Sabri Medel won a historic gold, and the only one in this specialty, by defeating the Spanish duo Luis Enrique Penalver Pereira and Pablo Abian Vicen. In fencing Algeria won its first gold medal in history with

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winning against Italian

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. In

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, from which a lot was expected of Algeria, they earned four medals, one of which was gold by

Messaoud Dris Messaoud Redouane Dris ( Arabic: مسعود رضوان دريس; born 13 September 2001) is an Algerian judoka. He is currently ranked thirty second in the lightweight division. Dris became African Champion and won the gold medal at the Medi ...

in 73 kg, defeating Moroccan Hassan Doukkali by Ippon. In wrestling, swimming and weightlifting, he won one gold medal in each discipline:

Bachir Sid Azara Bachir Sid Azara (born 3 March 1996) is an Algerian Greco-Roman wrestler. At the African Wrestling Championships he won a total of eight medals: five gold medals and three silver medals. He is also a gold medalist at the 2019 African Games, the 20 ...

in men's Greco-Roman as for Ishak Ghaiou and

Abdelkrim Ouakali Abdelkrim Ouakali (born March 19, 1993) is an Algerian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was the winner of the 2019 African Games Greco-Roman 77 kg category. In 2021, he competed at the 2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournamen ...

get the silver medal.

Jaouad Syoud Jaouad Syoud (born 17 September 1999) is an Algerian swimmer. He is a two-time gold medalist at the African Games. Career He competed in the men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) held in ...

in 200 m individual medley and Walid Bidani in snatch +102 kg and was satisfied with silver in Clean & jerk.

Medal summary

Medal table

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Archery

;Men ;Women

Athletics (track and field)

;Track & road events ;Men ;Women Field events
Men Women

Badminton

Algeria competed in badminton. ;Men ;Women

Basketball

Men's 3x3 tournament

;Group A ;Quarterfinals ;5–8th place semifinals

Women's 3x3 tournament

;Group A ;Ninth place game

Boules

;Lyonnaise ;Pétanque ;Raffa

Boxing

Algeria competed in boxing. ;Men ;Women Algeria has entered six female boxers to compete instead of seven after the cancellation of the 75 kg category following the absence of several boxers.

Cycling

Equestrian

Fencing

;Men ;Women

Football

;Summary ;Team roster The following is the Algeria squad in the men's football tournament of the 2022 Mediterranean Games. The team of 20 players was officially named on 14 June. Head coach: Mourad Slatni ;Group play ---- ----

Gymnastics

Artistic

Men
Team Individual Women
Team Individual

Handball

;Summary

Men's tournament

;Team roster The following is the Algerian roster in the men's handball tournament of the 2022 Mediterranean Games. Head coach: Rabah Gherbi ;Group play ---- ---- ---- ;Fifth place game

Women's tournament

;Group play ---- ---- ;Seventh place game

Judo

Algeria competed in judo. ;Men ;Women

Karate

;Men ;Women

Sailing

Algeria competed in sailing. ;Men ;Women M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Algeria competed in shooting. ;Men ;Women

Swimming

;Men ;Women

Volleyball

Men's tournament

;Team roster Head coach: Morad Sennoun *1 Ilyas Achouri *2 Sofiane Bouyoucef *3 Ahmed Amir Kerboua *6 Mohamed Amine Oumessad *7

Ali Kerboua Ali Kerboua (born April 17, 1983 in Blida, Algeria) is an Algerian volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's c ...

WS *8 Boudjemaa Ikken *9 Abderraouf Hamimes *11 Soufiane Hosni WS *16 Islem Ould Cherchali *17 Farouk Tizit WS *18 Billel Soualem WS *20 Youssouf Bourouba ;Group B

Women's tournament

;Team roster Head coach: Nabil Tennoun *1 Zina Mordjane Oudai *3 Salima Hammouche *5 Fahima Brahmi *6 Wissem Djouhri *7 Amira Bechar WS *8

Zohra Bensalem Zohra Bensalem (born April 5, 1990, in Béjaïa) is an Algerian international volleyball player. She competed for Algeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Club information *Current club : GSP (ex MC Alger Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, ناد ...

( C) WS *10 Melissa Soualmi *11 Yasmine Abderrahim WS *12 Kahina Djouhri *13 Radia Nadra Bellahsene *14 Bekhta Rabah Mazari WS *15 Aicha Mezemate ;Group C

Table tennis

Taekwondo

;Men ;Women

Tennis

;Men ;Women

Weightlifting

;Men ;Women

Wrestling

;Men's Freestyle ;Women's Freestyle ;Men's Greco-Roman

References

External links

International Committee of Mediterranean Games Official website
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