Mohamed Samandi
Mohamed Rayan Samandi | |
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Personal information | |
Nickname(s) | Rayan |
Born | Tunis, Tunisia | 13 August 1986
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Fencing |
Weapon | foil |
Hand | right-handed |
FIE ranking | current ranking |
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Medal record |
Mohamed Rayan Samandi is a Tunisian foil fencer,[1] African champion in 2014. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the individual event, but was defeated in the second round.
Career[]
Samandi took up fencing at the age of ten. In 2005 he was the first African to win a stage of the Junior World Cup in Viana do Castelo in Portugal. He claimed the gold medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games. [2]
Samandi qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing through his results at the African qualifying fencing tournament held in Casablanca,[3] but could not attend the competition due to lack of funds. He qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics as best-ranked African fencer. In the first round he defeated 15–8 Great Britain's Husayn Rosowsky, but he fell 7–15 in the next round to World No.1 Andrea Cassarà.[4]
He is a member of the AS Bourg-la-Reine fencing club, in the suburbs of Paris. With them he won a team bronze medal at the 2011 French national championships.
He qualified to represent Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Mohamed Rayan Samandi". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-12.
- ^ "Jeux Africains 2007 – La journée des Tunisiens : Débuts sur les chapeaux de roue". Le Quotidien.
- ^ "Tunisian, Moroccan fencers qualify for Olympics". Magharebia. 27 April 2008.
- ^ "Mohamed Samandi". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ "Escrime | Grand prix de DOHA : Inès Boubakri et Mohamed Samandi qualifiés pour les J.O." La Presse de Tunisie (in French). 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
External links[]
- Mohamed Samandi at Olympic.org (archived)
- Mohamed Samandi at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Mohamed Samandi at Olympics.com
- Mohamed Samandi at Olympedia
- Mohamed Samandi at FIE
- Mohamed Samandi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tunisian male fencers
- Living people
- Olympic fencers of Tunisia
- Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 1986 births
- Competitors at the 2019 African Games
- African Games competitors for Tunisia
- Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- African Games medalists in fencing
- African fencing biography stubs
- Tunisian martial arts biography stubs