Marwa Amri

Marwa Amri
Nationality:	Tunisia
Society:	Megrine Tunis
Date of birth:	January 8, 1989
Place of birth:	Tunis , Tunisia
Size:	1.60 m
Style:	Free style
Weight class:	Lightweight, welterweight

Marwa Amri ( Arabic مروى العمري, DMG Marwā al-ʿAmrī ; * January 8, 1989 in Tunis ) is a former Tunisian wrestler .

biography

Marwa Amri grew up with three younger siblings. When she was nine years old, her father died. She started wrestling at the age of eleven.

Despite the lack of funding, training opportunities and female training partners, Amri insisted on participating in World and African Championships through government support. In 2008 she made her Olympic debut at the Beijing Summer Games . In the lightweight she was defeated in the first round by Jackeline Rentería from Colombia and retired prematurely in 14th place from the competition. A year later she won her first international medal with silver at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara .

In her second Olympic participation in London in 2012 , she reached the round of 16, where she was defeated by the Swede Sofia Mattsson and finished eighth in the tournament. After winning the bronze medal at the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville , she managed to defeat Yulia Ratkevich, who competed for Azerbaijan, at the 2016 Olympic Games in the welterweight championship and thus win the bronze medal. The following year she won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in Paris.

Web links

• Marwa Amri in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deepti Patwardhan: Life's changed for wrestler Marwa after historic Rio medal. In: ESPN . November 21, 2016, accessed May 6, 2020 .