Mohamed Rayan Samandi is a Tunisian

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fencer, African champion in 2014. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, 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

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. Samandi qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics 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 2012 Summer Olympics as the best-ranked African fencer. In the first round, he defeated 15–8 Great Britain's

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, but he fell 7–15 in the next round to World No.1

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. He is a member of the AS Bourg-la-Reine 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

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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