Algeria at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	ALG
Nocname:	Algerian Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1996
Location:	Atlanta
Competitors:	45 (39 men and 6 women)
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Karim El-Mahouab
Rank:	34
Gold:	2
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto

Algeria competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 45 competitors, 39 men and 6 women, took part in 29 events in nine sports.^[1]

Medalists

See main article: article and 2000 Summer Olympics medal table.

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				3 August
				4 August
				1 August

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Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	1	0	0	1
Boxing	1	0	1	2
Total	2	0	1	3

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	6	2	8
Boxing	6	–	6
Fencing	1	1	2
Handball	16	0	16
Judo	4	2	6
Rowing	0	1	1
Swimming	1	0	1
Weightlifting	3	–	3
Wrestling	2	–	2
Total	39	6	45

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Amar Hecini	400 metres	align=center colspan=2	DSQ	align=center colspan=6	did not advance
Adem Hecini	800 metres	1:47.23	26	align=center colspan=2	N/A	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Ahmed Krama	1500 metres	3:42.09	35	align=center colspan=2	N/A	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Noureddine Morceli	1500 metres	3:41.95	21 Q	align=center colspan=2	N/A	3:32.88	1 Q	3:35.78
Aïssa Bel Aout	5000 metres	13:51.96	5 Q	align=center colspan=2	N/A	14:04.56	15 Q	14:06.52	15
Réda Benzine	5000 metres	14:03.06	23 Q	align=center colspan=2	N/A	13:37.52	8 q	13:42.34	13

Women

Track and road events

Athletes	Events	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nouria Mérah-Benida	800 metres	2:02.44	24	align=center colspan=2	N/A	align=center colspan=4	did not advance
Hassiba Boulmerka	1500 metres	4:09.96	11 Q	align=center colspan=2	N/A	4:23.86	23	align=center colspan=2	did not advance

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Mehdi Assous	Flyweight	W 11-4	W 20-4	L 19-6	Did not advance
Abdelaziz Boulehia	Bantamweight	W 10-6	L (RSC-3)	Did not advance
Noureddine Madjhoud	Featherweight	L 9-6	Did not advance
Hocine Soltani	Lightweight	W 14-2	W 11-1	W 16-10	W 9-6	W 3-3
Mohamed Alalou	Light-Middleweight	W 17-3	W 19-8	L 16-15	align=center colspan=2	did not advance
Mohamed Bahari	Middleweight	W (RSC-2)	W 8-5	W 15-9	L 11-11	Did not advance

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Raouf Salim Bernaoui	Men's sabre individual	L 15-7	align=center colspan=5	did not advance
Ferial Salhi	Women's foil individual	L 15-7	align=center colspan=5	did not advance

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Preliminary group B

width=25%	Team	width=5%	Pld	width=5%	W	width=5%	D	width=5%	L	width=5%	GF	width=5%	GA	width=5%	GD	width=8%	Points
	5	4	0	1	145	114	+31	8
	5	4	0	1	114	97	+17	8
	5	3	0	2	113	103	+10	6
	5	3	0	2	121	112	+9	6
	5	0	1	4	95	117	−22	1
	5	0	1	4	100	145	−45	1

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9th Place Match

Team roster

• Amar Daoud
• Abdelghani Loukil
• Redouane Aouachria
• Salim Nedjel Hammou
• Nabil Rouabhi
• Redouane Saïdi
• Ben Ali Beghouach
• Sofiane Lamali
• Abdeldjalil Bouanani
• Mahmoud Bouanik
• Rabah Gherbi
• Achour Hasni
• Sofiane Khalfallah
• Mohamed Bouziane
• Salim Abes
• Karim El-Mahouab

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Result
Amar Meridja	Extra-Lightweight	9
Abdelhakim Harkat	Lightweight	13
Lyes Cherifi	Half-Middleweight	17
Kamel Larbi	Heavyweight	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Result
Salima Souakri	Extra-Lightweight	5
Lynda Mekzine	Half-Lightweight	9

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Women

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athletes	Events	Heat		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Salim Iles	50 m freestyle	23.61	36	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	50.87	25	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:54.10	31	Did not advance

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Athletes	Events	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Azzedine Basbas	-64 kg	120	28	160	12	280	24
Fouad Bouzenada	-64 kg	115	29	152.5	26	267.5	29
Abdelmanaane Yahiaoui	-70 kg	150	7	185	4	335	5

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Freestyle

Greco-Roman

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Algeria at the 1996 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044229/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ALG/summer/1996/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-04 . sports-reference.com.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/ALG/editions/24 Algeria at the 1996 Summer Olympics