Mohamed Rayan Samandi is a Tunisian foil fencer, African champion in 2014. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, he competed in the individual event but was defeated in the second round.

Career

Samandi took up fencing at the age of ten. In 2005 he was the first African to win a stage of the Junior World Cup in Viana do Castelo in Portugal. He claimed the gold medal at the

2007 All-Africa Games The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nige ...

. Samandi qualified for the

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in Beijing through his results at the African qualifying fencing tournament held in Casablanca, but could not attend the competition due to lack of funds. He qualified to the

as the best-ranked African fencer. In the first round, he defeated 15–8 Great Britain's Husayn Rosowsky, but he fell 7–15 in the next round to World No.1 Andrea Cassarà. He is a member of the AS

Bourg-la-Reine Bourg-la-Reine () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. History In 1792, during the French Revolution, Bourg-la-Reine (meaning "Town of the Queen") was renamed Bourg-l'Égalité (meani ...

fencing club in the suburbs of Paris. He won a bronze medal at the 2011 French national championships with them. He qualified to represent Tunisia at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

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* Tunisian male foil fencers Living people Olympic fencers of Tunisia Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics 1988 births Competitors at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for Tunisia Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics African Games medalists in fencing African Games gold medalists for Tunisia Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games 21st-century Tunisian people {{Tunisia-fencing-bio-stub