Some sixty Tunisian athletes have so far booked their tickets for the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 (+1), pending the end of the last qualifying tournaments in some sports such as basketball and beach volleyball.
Tunisia will be represented at the Tokyo Games scheduled from July 23 to August 8 in 17 sports disciplines namely athletics, Canoe Kayak, rowing, swimming, archery and sport shooting, taekwondo , table tennis, boxing, fencing, wrestling, sailing, weight lifting, judo, open water swimming, tennis and volleyball.
Following is the list of athletes qualified for the Olympics:
Abdessalam Layouni (athletics / 800m)
Ghaylane Khattali (Canoe – C1 1000m)
Khaoula Sassi (kayak – Ka2 500m)
Afef Ben Ismail (kayak – Ka2 500m)
Mohamed Ali Mrabet (kayak – Ka1 1000m)
Khadija Krimi and Nour El Houda El-Tayeb (rowing – women’s double weight)
Ahmed Hafnaoui (Swimming – 800m freestyle)
Mohammad Hammad (Archery 70m)
Rihab Al-Walid (Archery)
Olfa Cherni (10m and 25m compressed air pistol)
Alaa Othmani (10m compressed air pistol)
Khalil Jendoubi (Taekwondo -58 kg)
Adam Hamam (table tennis)
Fadwa Garsi (Table tennis)
Marem Homrani (boxing – 60 kg)
Khouloud Halimi (boxing – 57 kg)
Farès Ferjani (fencing)
Sarah Basbas (fencing)
Amira Ben Chaabane (fencing)
Yasmine Daghfous (fencing)
Olfa Hzami (fencing)
Nadi Ben Azizi (fencing)
Ines Boubakri (fencing)
Mohammad Samandi (fencing)
Mehdi Gharbi (Sailing)
Rania Rahali (Sailing)
Eya Guezguez (Sailing)
Sarah Guezguez (Sailing)
Marwa Amri (wrestling – 62 kg)
Siwar Boucetta (wrestling – 57 kg)
Sarah Hamdi (wrestling – 50 kg)
Zeineb Seghaier (wrestling – 76 kg)
Mohamed Saadaoui (freestyle – 97 kg)
Haytham Dakhlaoui (freestyle – 65 kg)
Amjed Maafi (Greco-Roman wrestling – 77 kg)
Slimane Nasr (Greco-Roman wrestling – 67 kg)
Amine Guennichi (Greco-Roman wrestling – 130 kg)
Haykel Achouri (Greco-Roman wrestling – 97 kg)
Karem Ben Hnia (weightlifting -73 kg)
Ramzi Bahloul (weightlifting – 81 kg)
Aymen Bacha (weightlifting – 109 kg)
Nouha Landolsi (Weightlifting – 55 kg)
Chayma Rahmouni (weightlifting – 64 kg)
Nihel Cheikhrouhou (Judo +78 kg)
Ghofrane Khelifi (judo – 57 kg)
Ons Jabeur (Tennis)
Oussama Mellouli (Swimming – 10,000m open water swimming)
Tunisian men’s volleyball team (12 players).
Source: TAP News Agency