Lyès Bouyacoub (born 3 April 1983) is an Algerian

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who won the

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and

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, placing second in

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and

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. He competed at the 2016 Olympics, but was eliminated in the third round.

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* 1983 births Living people Algerian male judoka Olympic judoka for Algeria Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics African Games gold medalists for Algeria African Games gold medalists in judo Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Algeria Mediterranean Games medalists in judo Judoka at the 2011 All-Africa Games Judoka at the 2015 African Games Judoka at the 2018 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Algerian sportsmen {{Algeria-judo-bio-stub