Messaoud Mohammed Zeghdane ( ar, مسعود محمد زغدان; born January 25, 1981) is an amateur Algerian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category. Zeghdane represented

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's 74 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to

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Konstantin Schneider Konstantin Schneider (born 17 February 1975 in Frunze, Kirgiz SSR, Soviet Union) is an amateur German Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category. He won a silver medal for his division at the 2003 World Wrestling Champi ...

, who was able to score four points each in two straight periods, leaving Zeghdane with a single point.

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Profile – International Wrestling Database
Algerian male sport wrestlers 1981 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Algeria Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century Algerian sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) {{Algeria-wrestling-bio-stub