Algeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Algeria at the Olympic Games
Flag of Algeria – Flag bearers IOC code  ALG NOC Comité Olympique Algérien
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Competitors	62 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Salim Iles
Medals Rank: 64	Gold 0	Silver 1	Bronze 1	Total 2
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Algeria competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 8 to 24 August 2008.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
2 Silver	Benikhlef, AmarAmar Benikhlef	Judo	Men's 90 kg
3 Bronze	Haddad, SorayaSoraya Haddad	Judo	Women's 52 kg

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Competitors in athletics events qualified for the next round of competition in one oftwo ways. Qualifying by right involved ranking high enough in their heat, and qualifying as a "fastest loser" meant ranking high enough in overall standings amongst athletes not qualified by right. Ranks shown are therefore those within each heat, not in overall standings.

Men

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat round 1		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Khoudir Aggoune	10000 m	N/A				Did not start
Mohamed Ameur	20 km walk	N/A				1:32.21	48
Tarek Boukensa	1500 m	3:36.11	4 Q	3:39.73	8	Did not advance
Kamel Boulahfane	1500 m	3:45.59	11	Did not advance
Nabil Madi	800 m	1:45.75	3 q	1:45.63	1 Q	1:45.96	7
Rabia Makhloufi	3000 m steeplechase	8:29.74	8	N/A		Did not advance
Nadjim Manseur	800 m	1:45.75	3 q	1:45.54	4 q	1:47.19	8
Ali Saïdi-Sief	5000 m	14:15.00	12	N/A		Did not advance
Antar Zerguelaïne	800 m	Did not start		Did not advance
	1500 m	3:42.30	5 Q	3:40.64	11	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Issam Nima	Long jump	Did not start		Did not advance

Women

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat round 1		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Souad Aït Salem	Marathon	N/A				2:28.29	9
Widad Mendil	3000 m steeplechase	9:52.35	17	N/A		Did not advance
Nahida Touhami	1500 m	4:18.99	11	N/A		Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Baya Rahouli	Triple jump	13.87	22	Did not advance

Legend: Q - Qualified by right q - Qualified as a "fastest loser"

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nabil Lasmari	Singles	Bye	Gade (DEN) L 21-6, 21-4	Did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Algeria qualified eight boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. All eight qualified at the 1st AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Abdelhalim Ouradi	Bantamweight	Nevin (IRL) L 9-4	Did not advance
Abdelkader Chadi	Featherweight	Bye	Adi (THA) W 7-6	Kılıç (TUR) L 13-6	Did not advance
Hamza Kramou	Lightweight	Ugás (CUB) L 21-3	Did not advance
Nabil Kassel	Middleweight	Bye	Sutherland (IRL) L 21-14 (RSCH)	Did not advance
Abdelhafid Benchebla	Light heavyweight	Kumar (IND) W 23-3 (RSCOS)	Yasser (EGY) W 13-6	Zhang (CHN) L 12-7	Did not advance
Abdelaziz Touilbini	Heavyweight		Wilder (USA) L 10-4	Did not advance
Newfel Ouatah	Super heavyweight		Payares (VEN) W 7-5	Glazkov (UKR) L 10-4	Did not advance

Legend: RSCH = Referee stop contest - head blow RSCOS = Referee stop contest outscored

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Hichem Chaabane	Road race	Did not finish

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Nadia Bentaleb	Individual épée		Szász (HUN) L 15-4	Did not advance
Anissa Khelfaoui	Individual foil	Thompson (USA) L 11-2	Did not advance

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First repechage round	Repechage quarterfinals	Repechage semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Omar Rebahi	−60 kg	Bye	Sobirov (UZB) L 1001/0000	Did not advance
Mounir Benamadi	−66 kg	Bye	Brown (AUS) W 1010/00002	Sharipov (UZB) L 0001/00001	Did not advance
Amar Meridja	−73 kg		Semenov (BLR) L 01022/00101	Did not advance
Amar Benikhlef	−90 kg		El Assri (MAR) W 00111/00011	Alarza (ESP) W 10201/00012	Aschwanden (SUI) W 0001/00001	Dafreville (FRA) W 1000/0000				Tsirekidze (GEO) L 0001/00001
Hassane Azzoun	−100 kg		Miraliyev (AZE) L 10001/0001	Did not advance			Zhorzholiani (GEO) L 1001/00011	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	First repechage round	Repechage quarterfinals	Repechage semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Meriem Moussa	−48 kg	Ilendou (GAB) W 0011/00001	Baschin (GER) L 0101/00001	Did not advance
Soraya Haddad	−52 kg	Muller (LUX) W 0211/00001	Diedhiou (SEN) W 00101/0001	Kim (KOR) W 02101/00012	Xian (CHN) L 1001/00001				Kaliyeva (KAZ) W 0121/00102 Bronze medal contest
Leila Atrous	−57 kg	Xu (CHN) L 10011/00011	Did not advance			Koivumaki (FIN) L 0001/00001	Did not advance
Kahina Saidi	−63 kg	Bezzina (MLT) W 0200/0000	Willeboordse (NED) L 11001/00013	Did not advance
Rachida Ouerdane	−70 kg	Bye	Bosch (NED) L 01102/00102	Did not advance		Rasokisoki (FIJ) W 1001/0000	Rousey (USA) L 1001/0000	Did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athletes	Events	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Chaouki Dries	Single sculls	7:57.65	5			7:34.84	3	7:32.82	6
Kamel Ait-Daoud Mohamed Garidi	Lightweight double sculls	6:43.94	5	7:05.73	6	6:43.80	4	6:47.44	2

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athletes	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sofiane Daid	100 m breaststroke	1:02.45	44	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:16.15	50	Did not advance
Mehdi Hamama	200 m individual medley	2:04.91	41	Did not advance
Salim Iles	50 m freestyle	22.35	=23	Did not advance
Nabil Kebbab	100 m freestyle	49.38	32	Did not advance
Mahrez Mebarek	200 m freestyle	1:52.66	51	Did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Kourta Idir Abdallah	Singles	Henzell (AUS) L 4-1	Did not advance

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Indoor

Algeria entered a team in the women's tournament. The team lost all five matches in the group play, and finished last in their group. The team's final ranking was tied for 11th place.

Women's tournament

Roster

The following is the Algerian roster in the women's volleyball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

№	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2008 club
01 !1	Hanaoui, MelindaMelinda Hanaoui	01990-03-18 18 March 1990	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	68 kg (150 lb)	288 cm (113 in)	270 cm (110 in)	Istres Volleyball
02 !2	Hanaoui, SerineSérine Hanaoui	01988-01-10 10 January 1988	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	69 kg (150 lb)	280 cm (110 in)	266 cm (105 in)	Istres Volleyball
04 !4	Benhamouda, SalehaSaleha Benhamouda	01973-10-20 20 October 1973	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	67 kg (150 lb)	299 cm (118 in)	287 cm (113 in)	MC Algiers
07 !7	Rouabhia, RaouiaRaouia Rouabhia	01978-06-25 25 June 1978	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	67 kg (150 lb)	296 cm (117 in)	286 cm (113 in)	Venelle
09 !9	Madani, NarimeneNarimène Madani	01984-03-12 12 March 1984	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	62 kg (140 lb)	298 cm (117 in)	287 cm (113 in)	NC Bejaia
10	Oukazi, Fatma-ZohraFatma-Zohra Oukazi	01984-01-18 18 January 1984	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	67 kg (150 lb)	295 cm (116 in)	283 cm (111 in)	MC Algiers
11	Abderrahim, MouniMouni Abderrahim	01985-11-19 19 November 1985	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	60 kg (130 lb)	300 cm (120 in)	290 cm (110 in)	ASWB
12	Boukhima, SafiaSafia Boukhima	01991-01-10 10 January 1991	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	64 kg (140 lb)	294 cm (116 in)	284 cm (112 in)	ASWB
13	Mansouri, NawelNawel Mansouri	01985-08-01 1 August 1985	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	65 kg (140 lb)	291 cm (115 in)	281 cm (111 in)	NC Bejaia
14	Tsabet, FaizaFaïza Tsabet	01985-03-22 22 March 1985	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	79 kg (170 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	286 cm (113 in)	Istres Volleyball
17	Oulmou, LydiaLydia Oulmou	01986-02-02 2 February 1986	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	305 cm (120 in)	294 cm (116 in)	Istres Volleyball
18	Aissou, TassaditTassadit Aïssou	01989-06-19 19 June 1989	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	295 cm (116 in)	285 cm (112 in)	ASWB

Group play

	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Eliminated

			Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Brazil	10	5	0	377	226	1.668	15	0	MAX
2	Italy	9	4	1	372	315	1.181	12	4	3.000
3	Russia	8	3	2	353	312	1.131	10	6	1.667
4	Serbia	7	2	3	343	349	0.983	6	10	0.600
5	Kazakhstan	6	1	4	323	404	0.800	4	13	0.308
6	Algeria	5	0	5	230	392	0.587	1	15	0.067

9 August 2008 12:30	Algeria	0 – 3	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee(s): Liu Jiang (China), Ibrahim al-Naama (Qatar) Report(s): result statistics
	11 11 10	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

11 August 2008 10:00	Algeria	0 – 3	Serbia	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: 3,100 Referee(s): Janpen Jirakakul (Thailand), Liu Jiang (China) Report(s): result statistics
	14 13 13	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

13 August 2008 10:00	Italy	3 – 0	Algeria	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: 3,400 Referee(s): Karin Zahorcova (Czech Republic), Janpen Jirakakul (Thailand) Report(s): result statistics
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	7 20 12

15 August 2008 10:00	Algeria	0 – 3	Russia	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: 3,500 Referee(s): Patricia Salvatore (United States), Osamu Sakaide (Japan) Report(s): result statistics
	11 19 10	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

17 August 2008 10:00	Kazakhstan	3 – 1	Algeria	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Attendance: 3,500 Referee(s): Patricia Salvatore (United States), Massimo Menghini (Italy) Report(s): result statistics
	25 25 17 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4	18 20 25 16

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Leila Lassouani	−63 kg	85	16	110	–	Did not finish

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Bronze medal bout
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Mohamed Serir	−66 kg	Bye	Kovalenko (RUS) L 6-0, 6-0	Did not advance
Messaoud Zeghdane	−74 kg	Bye	Schneider (GER) L 4-1, 4-0	Did not advance
Samir Bouguerra	−96 kg	Bye	Jiang (CHN) L 5-0, 3-0	Did not advance

See also

• Algeria at the 2008 Summer Paralympics