Faicel Jaballah | |
Native Name: | فيصل جاب الله |
Birth Date: | 1988 5, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Nefta, Tunisia |
Hometown: | Tozeur, Tunisia |
Height: | 196 cm |
Weight: | 140 kg |
Country: | Tunisia |
Weight Class: | +100 kg |
Coach: | Anis Lounifi |
Worlds Rank: | 3 |
Worlds Year: | 2013 |
Worlds Weight: | Men's +100 kg |
Regionals Type: | AF |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 2012 |
Regionals Year2: | 2013 |
Regionals Year3: | 2014 |
Regionals Year4: | 2014 |
Regionals Year5: | 2015 |
Regionals Year6: | 2015 |
Regionals Year7: | 2016 |
Regionals Year8: | 2016 |
Regionals Year9: | 2018 |
Regionals Year10: | 2021 |
Olympics Rank: | R16 |
Olympics Year: | 2012 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's +100 kg |
Updated: | 5 July 2023 |
Faicel (or Faycal) Jaballah (Arabic: فيصل جاب الله) (born 1 May 1988 in Nefta, Tunisia) is a Tunisian judoka. He is 1,96 m tall and weighs 130 kg.[1]
At the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Faicel won a gold medal in +100 kg category.
Faicel competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +100 kg event, he defeated Yerzhan Shynkeyev before being eliminated by the 2011 world champion Teddy Riner.[2]
Faicel qualified for the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio.[3] He competed in the +100kg division, and defeated Roy Meyer and Islam El Shehaby before being defeated by Andreas Tölzer in the final match of the pool B.[4] In the repechage, Faicel defeated Ryu Shichinohe and advanced to face Adam Okruashvili for the third place in +100 kg category. He finished the competition in the third place, along with Andreas Tölzer. This result was the best achievement in his career so far.[5] [6]
At the 2016 Olympics, he lost his first match to Barna Bor.[7]
At the 2021 African Judo Championships held in Dakar, Senegal, he won the gold medal in his event.[8]