Tunisia at the 2019 African Games


Tunisia competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. In total athletes representing Tunisia competed in all 26 sports held at the competition and they won 26 gold medals, 36 silver medals and 35 bronze medals. The country finished in 6th place in the medal table.

Medal summary

Medal table

MedalNameSportEventDate
JudoWomen's -57 kg
JudoWomen's +78 kg
RowingMen's single sculls 1000 metres
RowingMen's single sculls 500 metres
RowingMen's lightweight single sculls 500 metres
Syrine Fattoum
Ons Lajili
Mohamed Aziz Sebai
Seifeddine Selmi		TriathlonMixed relay
AthleticsWomen's pole vault
AthleticsMen's 800 metres
BoxingWomen's lightweight
Aziz Dougaz
Skander Mansouri		TennisMen's doubles
WrestlingMen's freestyle 86 kg
JudoMen's -60 kg
JudoMen's -90 kg
JudoWomen's -70 kg
RowingWomen's lightweight single sculls 1000 metres
RowingWomen's lightweight single sculls 500 metres
Khadija Krimi
Mohamed Taieb		RowingMixed 2 x 500 metres single sculls
AthleticsMen's pole vault
ArcheryMen's individual recurve
TunisiaArcheryMen's team recurve
ArcheryWomen's individual recurve
JudoWomen's -63 kg
JudoMen's +100 kg
JudoWomen's -78 kg
RowingMen's lightweight single sculls 1000 metres
RowingWomen's single sculls 1000 metres
CyclingMen's Cross-country
Men's teamTable tennisMen's team
Women's teamTable tennisWomen's team
Aziz DougazTennisMen's singles
AthleticsMen's 400 metres hurdles
AthleticsWomen's heptathlon
Aziz Dougaz
Skander Mansouri		TennisMen's team event

Archery

won the silver medal in the men's individual event.
Sabeur Ben Brahim, Nabil Benromdhan and Mohamed Hammed won the silver medal in the men's team event.
Rihab El Walid won the silver medal in the women's individual event.

Athletics

won the gold medal in the men's 800 metres event. This was Ayouni's first medal at the African Games. He previously competed in the 2015 African Games in the men's 1500 metres event where he finished in 6th place.
Dorra Mahfoudhi won the gold medal in the women's pole vault event. Her result of 4.31m was also a new African Games record.
Mejdi Chehata won the silver medal in the men's pole vault event.
Mohamed Amine Touati won the bronze medal in the men's 400 metres hurdles event.
Nada Charoudi won the bronze medal in the women's heptathlon event.

Boxing

won the gold medal in the women's lightweight event.

Canoeing

Athletes representing Tunisia competed in canoeing and won three gold medals, six silver medals and six bronze medals.
Mohamed Mrabet won the gold medal in the men's K-1 1000 metres event and the silver medal in the men's K-1 200 metres event.
Mohamed Mrabet and Outail Khatali won the silver medal in the men's K-2 1000 metres event and the bronze medal in the men's K-2 200 metres event.
Ghailene Khattali won the gold medals in both the men's C-1 200 metres and men's C-1 1000 metres events.
Ghailene Khattali and Mohamed Kendaoui won the bronze medals in both the men's C-2 200 metres and men's C-2 1000 metres events.
Khaoula Sassi won the silver medals in the women's K-1 200 metres and K-1 500 metres events.
Nedra Trabelsi won the silver medal in the women's C-1 500 metres event and the bronze medal in the women's C-1 200 metres event.
Ghada Belhaj and Nedra Trabelsi won the bronze medals in the women's C-2 200 metres and women's C-2 500 metres events.

Cycling

Athletes representing Tunisia competed in cycling.
Maher Habouria won the bronze medal in the men's cross-country mountain bike event.

Equestrian

Four equestrians represented Tunisia. They competed in the individual jumping event as well as the team jumping event and did not win any medals.

Fencing

Athletes representing Tunisia competed in fencing and won three gold medals, five silver medals and two bronze medals.
Mohamed Ayoub Ferjani won the silver medal in the men's individual foil event.
Mohamed Samandi won a bronze medal in the men's individual foil event.
Farès Ferjani won the gold medal in the men's individual sabre event.
Ahmed Ferjani won a bronze medal in the men's individual sabre event.
Inès Boubakri won the gold medal in the women's individual foil event.
Sarra Besbes won the gold medal in the women's individual épée event.

Gymnastics

Four athletes represented Tunisia in gymnastics. In total two bronze medals were won.
Wissem Harzi won the bronze medal in the men's pommel horse event.
Chahed Sakr won the bronze medal in the women's vault event.

Handball

Tunisia's women's national handball team competed in handball. They were eliminated in the quarter finals by the women's team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Judo

Eleven athletes represented Tunisia in judo: Oumaima Bedioui, Abdelaziz Ben Ammar, Mariem Bjaoui, Nihel Cheikh Rouhou, Fraj Dhouibi, Faïcel Jaballah, Ghofran Khrlifi, Nihal Landolsi, Monaam Mejri, Sarra Mzougui and Oussama Mohamed Snoussi.

Karate

Athletes representing Tunisia competed in karate and they won two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal.
Thamer Slimani won the gold medal in the men's Kumite -84kg event.
Nader Azzouzi won a bronze medal in the men's Kumite -60kg event.
Bouthaina Hasnaoui Ep Lomonaco won the silver medal in the women's Kumite -61kg event.
Chehinez Jemi won the gold medal in the women's Kumite +68kg event.

Rowing

Four athletes competed in rowing: Nour El-Houda Ettaieb, Khadija Krimi, Mohamed Khalil Mansouri and Mohamed Taieb and in total they won three gold medals, three silver medals and two bronze medals.
Ettaieb won the bronze medal in the women's single sculls 1000 metres event.
Krimi won the silver medals in the women's lightweight single sculls 500 metres and women's lightweight single sculls 1000 metres events.
Krimi and Taieb also won the silver medal in the relay 2 × 500 metres single sculls event.
Mansouri won the gold medal in the men's lightweight single sculls 500 metres event and the bronze medal in the men's lightweight single sculls 1000 metres event.
Taieb won the gold medals in the men's single sculls 500 metres and men's single sculls 1000 metres events.

Swimming

Three swimmers represented Tunisia, Mohamed Mehdi Agili, Adnan Beji and Wassim Elloumi, and all three won at least one medal.
Mohamed Mehdi Agili won one gold medal and three silver medals.
Wassim Elloumi won the bronze medal in the men's 50 metre breaststroke event and Adnan Beji won the bronze medal in the men's 200 metre breaststroke event.
In total they won one gold medal, three silver medals and two bronze medals and Tunisia finished in 5th place in the medal table.

Table tennis

Tunisia competed in table tennis and both the men's team and women's team won bronze medals in the men's team and women's team events respectively.
Adam Hmam and Thameur Mamia won a bronze medal in the men's doubles event.

Taekwondo

Athletes representing Tunisia competed in Taekwondo and they won two gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals.

Tennis

In total tennis players representing Tunisia won one gold medal and two bronze medals.
Aziz Dougaz won a bronze medal in the men's singles event.
Dougaz and Skander Mansouri also won the gold medal in the men's doubles event.
In the men's team event they won the bronze medal.

Triathlon

, Ons Lajili, Mohamed Aziz Sebai and Seifeddine Selmi competed in triathlon. They won the gold medal in the mixed relay event.

Weightlifting

Tunisia competed in weightlifting. In total weightlifters representing Tunisia won four gold medals, five silver medals and three bronze medals and the country finished in 4th place in the weightlifting medal table.
Karem Ben Hnia won all three gold medals in the Men's 73 kg event. He also set a new African Games record of 153 kg in the Men's 73 kg Snatch event.
Amine Bouhijbha won the silver medal in the Men's 61 kg Snatch event.
Ramzi Bahloul won the silver medal in the Men's 81 kg Snatch event.
Aymen Bacha won the gold medal in the Men's 109 kg Snatch event, the silver medal in the Clean & Jerk and the silver medal in Total.
Zahra Chihi won the silver medal in the Women's 49 kg Snatch event.
Chaima Rahmouni won all three bronze medals in the Women's 59 kg event.

Wrestling

was scheduled to compete in wrestling but ultimately did not compete. In total wrestlers representing Tunisia won one gold medal, four silver medals and four bronze medals.
Ayoub Barraj won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 86 kg event.