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Mohamed Sofiane Boudjadja
Personal information
Full nameMohamed Sofiane Boudjadja
NationalityAlgerian
Born (1983-11-08) 8 November 1983 (age 40)
Paris, France
Sport
SportTable tennis

Mohamed Boudjadja (born 8 November 1983) is an Algerian table tennis player. He competed in the men's singles event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1]

Mohamed started his international career in 1998 when he was a junior. In 2001, he became Vice Champion of Africa in the hope category. Then he made his senior team debut and won an individual bronze medal at the 2002 Arab Championships in Jordan. He is now an important member of the Algerian national senior team since many years. He participated in six World Table Tennis Championships between 2003 and 2010.[2]

He notably distinguished himself at the African Games. He has participated in all editions since 2003, i.e. five times. At the 2003, 2007 and 2011 editions, taking place successively in Nigeria, Algeria, and Mozambique, he won bronze medal in the team event.[3] Along with Sami Kherouf, Boudjadja won the men's doubles title at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco.[4]

Over the years he has won a total of six bronze medals and one silver medal in African Table Tennis Championships. It was in this competition that he won his best individual medals so far. He won bronze twice by reaching the semi-finals in the 2004 and 2007 editions which took place respectively in Mauritius and Congo.

He won a bronze medal with the Algerian national team in 2004, during the Pan Arab Games hosted by Algeria. He obtained two additional bronze medals at the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games, held in Saudi Arabia, in the team event and double event alongside his compatriot Fatah Ourahmoune. [5]

In his national career, he won the Algerian table tennis Championships 11 times, including 3 times in singles, 5 times in men's doubles and 3 times in mixed doubles. He acquired his last individual title in 2019.

References

  1. ^ "Mohamed Boudjadja". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Player profile". results.ittf.link.
  3. ^ "FATT - Palmarès national et international". www.fatt.dz.
  4. ^ "#OnThisDay: A first for Algeria in Rabat". International Table Tennis Federation. 26 August 2020.
  5. ^ "FATT - Palmarès national et international". www.fatt.dz.