Mounir Benamadi ( ar, منير بن أمادي; born April 5, 1982) is an Algerian

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, who played for the half-lightweight category. He won a gold medal for his division at the

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, and silver at the

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in Agadir. Benamadi represented Algeria at the

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in Beijing, where he competed for the men's half-lightweight class (66 kg). He defeated Australia's

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in the first preliminary round, before losing out his next match by a single koka to Uzbekistan's

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
Algerian male judoka Living people Olympic judoka of Algeria Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics 1982 births African Games gold medalists for Algeria African Games medalists in judo Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-judo-bio-stub