Mohamed Samandi
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Nickname | Rayan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 August 1986 Tunis, Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | London, Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
[edit | edit source]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 the 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 qualified to represent Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]
References
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External links
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- Tunisian male foil fencers
- Living people
- Olympic fencers for Tunisia
- Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 1987 births
- Fencers at the 2019 African Games
- African Games competitors for Tunisia
- Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- African Games medalists in fencing
- African Games gold medalists for Tunisia
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- Fencers from Tunis
- 21st-century Tunisian sportsmen
- African fencing biography stubs
- Tunisian martial arts biography stubs