Algeria competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Algeria first competed in the Olympics in 1964, and entered the 2004 Athens Games having won a total of twelve medals — including one gold, one silver, and three bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics. These medals were in athletics (three gold, one silver, two bronze) and boxing (one gold, five bronze).

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 200 metres:

• Malik Louahla

*Round 2 — 20.93 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 metres:

• Adem Hecini

*Round 1 — 46.50 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres:

• Djabir Said Guerni

*Final — 1:45.61 (→ 7th place)

• Nabil Madi

*Round 1 — 1:47.5 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1,500 metres:

• Kamal Boulahfane

*Final — 3:39.02 (→ 11th place)

• Tarek Boukensa

*Semifinal — DNF (→ did not advance)

• Mohamed Khaldi

*Round 1 — 3:42.47 (→ did not advance)

Women's 1,500 metres:

• Nahida Touhami

*Round 1 — 4:06.41

*Semifinal — 4:07.21 (→ did not advance)

• Nouria Merah Benida

*Round 1 — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 3,000m Steeplechase:

• Abdelhakim Maazouz

*Round 1 — 8:36.12 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5,000 metres:

• Ali Saidi Sief

*Final — 13:32.57 (→ 10th place)

• Samir Moussaoui

*Final — 14:02.01 (→ 14th place)

• Khoudir Aggoune

*Round 1 — 13:29.37 (→ did not advance)

Women's 5,000 metres:

• Souad Ait Salem

*Round 1 — 16:02.10 (→ did not advance)

Women's 10,000 metres:

• Souad Ait Salem

*DNF (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon:

• Said Belhout — 2:22:32 (→ 49th place)
• Rachid Ziar — DNF (→ no ranking)
• Mustapha Bennacer — DNF (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon:

• Nasria Azaidj — DNF (→ no ranking)

Men's 20 km Walk:

• Moussa Aouanouk

*1:28:28 (→ 31st place)

Women's Triple Jump:

• Baya Rahouli

*Round 1 — 14.89 metres (NR)

*Final — 14.86 metres (→ 6th place)

Men's High Jump:

• Abderrahmane Hammad

*Round 1 — 2.25 metres (did not advance)

Boxing

Flyweight (– 51kg)

• Mebarek Soltani

* Round of 32 — Lost to Georgy Balakshin of Russia, 26-15

Bantamweight (– 54kg)

• Malik Bouziane

* Round of 32 — Defeated Ali Hallab of France, 19-16

* Round of 16 — Lost to Gennady Kovalev of Russia, 23-20

Featherweight (– 57kg)

• Hadj Belkheir

* Round of 32 — Lost to Alexei Tichtchenko of Russia, 37-17

Light Welterweight (– 64kg)

• Fillali Nasserredine

* Round of 32 — Lost to Boris Georgiev, Bulgaria, outscored

Welterweight (– 69kg)

• Meskine Benamar

* Round of 32 — Lost to Vanes Martirosyan of United States, 45-20

Middleweight (– 75kg)

• Kassel Nabil

* Round of 32 — Defeated Glaucelio Abreu of Brazil, 41-36

* Round of 16 — Lost to Andre Dirrell of United States, outscored

Light Heavyweight (– 81kg)

• Abdelhani Kensi

* Round of 32 — Defeated Song Hak Sung of Korea, 25-19

* Round of 16 — Lost to Utkirbek Haydarov of Uzbekistan, 31-19

Fencing

Algeria fielded 8 fencers. All three of the male sabre fencers were defeated in the round of 64, as was the female épéeist. Sofiane el Azizi won his first match in foil, advancing to the round of 32.

Men's épée individual:

• Abderrahmane Daidj

* Round of 64 - Lost to Dmittiy Karuchenko of Ukraine, 6-15

Women's épée individual:

• Zahra Gamir

* Round of 64 - Lost to Ana Branza of Romania, 14-15

Men's foil individual:

• Sofiane el Azizi

* Round of 32 - Lost to Jedediah Dupree of United States, 14-15

Women's foil individual:

• Wassila Redouane Said-Guerni - defeated in round of 32

* Round of 32 - Lost to Meng Jie of China, 12-15

Men's sabre individual:

• Nassim Islam Bernaoui

* Round of 64 - Lost to Hung Yaojiang of China, 6-15

• Raouf Salim Bernaoui

* Round of 64 - Lost to Constantine Manetas of Greece, 10-15

• Reda Benchehima

* Round of 64 - Lost to Chen Feng of China, 3-15

Men's sabre team:

• Raouf Salim Bernaoui, Nassim Islam Bernaoui, and Reda Benchehima - 9th place

* Preliminaries - Lost to Greece, 25-45

Judo

60 kg men:

• Omar Rebahi - men's 60 kg, defeated in round of 32

* Round of 32 - Lost to Bazarbek Donbay of Kazakhstan

66 kg men:

• Amar Meridja

* Round of 32 - Defeated Amin Mohamed of Egypt

* Round of 16 - Defeated Ehud Vaks of Israel

* Quarterfinal - Lost to Jozef Krnac of Slovakia

* Repechage Quarterfinal - Lost to Oscar Penas of Spain

73 kg men:

• Nouredinne Yagoubi

* Round of 32 - Defeated Akapei Latu of Tonga

* Round of 16 - Lost to Gennadiy Bilodid of Ukraine

81 kg men:

• Amar Benikhlef

* Round of 32 - Defeated Elsayed Aboumedan of Egypt

* Round of 16 - Lost to Florian Wanner of Germany

90 kg men:

• Khaled Meddah

* Round of 32 - Lost to Carlos Eduardo Honorato of Brazil

100 kg men:

• Sami Belgroun

* Round of 32 - Defeated Ramon Ayala of Puerto Rico

* Round of 16 - Lost to Iveri Jikurauli of Georgia

Over 100 kg men:

• Mohamed Bouaichaoui

* Round of 32 - Lost to Indrek Pertelson of Estonia

48 kg women:

• Soraya Haddad

* Round of 16 - Defeated Yamila Zambrano of Cuba

* Quarterfinals - Lost to Ryoko Tani of Japan

52 kg women:

• Salima Souakri

* Round of 32 - Defeated Petra Nareks of Slovenia

* Round of 16 - Lost to Xian Dongmei of China

57 kg women:

• Lila Latrous

* Round of 32 - Lost to Liu Yuxiang of China

70 kg women:

• Rachida Ouer Dane

* Round of 32 - Lost to Qin Dongya of China

Rowing

• Mohamed Aich - men's single sculls, D/E semifinals
• Amina Benelhadj Djelloul
• Basma Dries
• Chaouki Dries
• Mohamed Riad Garidi

Swimming

• Raouf Benabid
• Sabria Dahane - women's 400 m individual medley, 24th
• Sofiane Daid - men's 100 m breaststroke, 32nd
• Sarah Hadj Abderrahmane
• Salim Iles - men's 100 m freestyle, in finals
• Nabil Kebbab
• Mahrez Mebarek - men's 200 m freestyle, 35th
• Aghiles Slimani - men's 200 m butterfly, 32nd

Table tennis

• Leila Boucetta - women's singles, defeated in first round
• Mohamed Boudjadja - men's singles, defeated in first round
• Mohamed Boudjadja and Abdel Hakim Djaziri - men's doubles, defeated in first round
• Asma Menaifi and Souad Nechab - women's doubles, defeated in first round

Tennis

Men's Singles

• Lamine Ouahab — defeated in round of 64

Weightlifting

Algeria was represented by two weightlifters in Athens. Nafaa Benami, competing in the men's 56 kg class, did not complete the clean and jerk portion of the event.

• Nafaa Benami - men's 56 kg, did not finish
• Ahmed Keroui -

Wrestling

There were two wrestlers from Algeria at the Athens games.

• Samir Benchenaf
• Leila Francoise Lassouani

Officials

• President: Mustapha Berraf
• Secretary General: Naidji Mohamed Nacereddine

See also

• Algeria at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

References

• sports-reference