Ayoub Barraj

Ayoub Barraj (born 27 May 1997) is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler. At the African Wrestling Championships he won a total of four medals: three gold medals and one bronze medal.[1]

Ayoub Barraj
Personal information
Born (1997-05-27) 27 May 1997
Sport
CountryTunisia
SportAmateur wrestling
Event(s)Freestyle
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Tunisia
African Games
2019 Rabat 86 kg
African Wrestling Championships
2018 Port Harcourt 74 kg
2019 Hammamet 79 kg
2020 Algiers 79 kg
2015 Alexandria 74 kg

He represented Tunisia at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and he won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 86 kg event.[2] In the final he defeated Fateh Benferdjallah of Algeria. In the same year, he also competed in the men's freestyle 79 kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan where he was eliminated in his first match by Tajmuraz Salkazanov of Slovakia.[3] Salkazanov went on to win one of the bronze medals.[3]

In 2014, he represented Tunisia at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China without winning a medal.[4] He finished in 5th place in the boys' freestyle 76 kg event.[4]

References
  1. "Athlete Profile". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  2. "2019 African Games Wrestling Results" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  3. "2019 World Wrestling Championships Results" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  4. "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2020.


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