Samir Bouguerra
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| Born | 18 July 1982 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||
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Samir Bouguerra (Arabic: سمير بوقرة; born 18 July 1982) is an amateur Algerian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's heavyweight category.[1] He won a silver medal for his division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, losing out to Egyptian wrestler and defending Olympic champion Karam Gaber.[2]
Bouguerra represented Algeria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 96 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match, before losing out to China's Jiang Huachen, who was able to score eight points in two straight periods, leaving Bouguerra without a single point.[3]