Allel Boukhalfa (17 February 1988) is a

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athlete from

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. Boukhalfa represented his country twice at the Summer Paralympic Games, in 2008 in Beijing and

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. He is the current world record holder in the T35 400m with a performance of 60.55 which he set in

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on the 29 January 2011, set while winning gold at the

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. He also finished second in the T35 200m at the same championships.

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Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic athletes for Algeria World record holders in para-athletics 1988 births Track and field athletes with cerebral palsy Algerian male sprinters Algerian people with disabilities 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-athletics-bio-stub