Maher Bouallegue ( ar, ماهر بوعلاق) is a retired

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from Tunisia competed mainly in category T13 800m to 10000m events. He is a seven-times Paralympic medalist, is an African record holder, and trained with the Tunisian Federation of Sports for the Disabled team based at Tunis.

Achievements

Maher competed in two Paralympics; firstly in the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...

where he was undefeated in the 800m, 1500m and 5000m, taking home three gold medals. Four years later, in the

2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...

, he attempted to defend his titles and add the 10000m title. He won three golds but missed out in the 800m being beaten into the silver medal by Abel Avila of Spain.profile on paralympic.org
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References

Paralympic athletes for Tunisia Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Tunisia Paralympic silver medalists for Tunisia Living people Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Tunisian male middle-distance runners Tunisian male long-distance runners Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Visually impaired middle-distance runners Visually impaired long-distance runners Paralympic middle-distance runners Paralympic long-distance runners 21st-century Tunisian people {{Tunisia-Paralympic-medalist-stub