Farah Boufadene (born 11 March 1999) is an Algerian

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

, representing her nation in international competitions upon transferring an allegiance from her native

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at the beginning of 2015. Boufadene participated at the

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in Glasgow, and eventually qualified for

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, where she placed fifty-ninth in the qualifying stage of the competition with scores of 12.533 on the vault, 12.200 on the

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, 10.600 on the balance beam, and 11.100 on the floor exercise.

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* * * 1999 births Living people Algerian female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Saint-Étienne French sportspeople of Algerian descent Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Algeria African Games gold medalists for Algeria African Games medalists in gymnastics African Games bronze medalists for Algeria Competitors at the 2015 African Games 20th-century Algerian women 21st-century Algerian women {{Algeria-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub