Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Two Tunisian archers qualified for the men's and women's individual recurve, respectively, at the Games, by finishing in the top two, among those eligible for Olympic qualification, at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco.^[2]

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Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohamed Hammed	Men's individual	631	62	Oh J-h (KOR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Rihab Elwalid	Women's individual	609	59	Román (MEX) L 2–6	Did not advance
Mohamed Hammed Rihab Elwalid	Mixed team	1240	28	—N/a		Did not advance

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Tunisian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[3][4]

Track & road events

Tunisia entered two female boxers into the Olympic tournament for the first time in history. Khouloud Hlimi (women's featherweight) and Mariem Homrani (women's lightweight) secured their spots by advancing to the final match of their respective weight divisions at the 2020 African Qualification Tournament in Diamniadio, Senegal.^[5]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Khouloud Hlimi	Women's featherweight	Bye	Irie (JPN) L 0–5	Did not advance
Mariem Homrani	Women's lightweight	Bye	Khelif (ALG) L 0–5	Did not advance

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Tunisian fencers qualified a full squad each in the women's team sabre for the Games as the highest-ranked nation from Africa outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings. Experienced Olympians Mohamed Samandi (men's foil), Farès Ferjani (men's sabre), Sarra Besbes (women's épée), and Rio 2016 bronze medalist Inès Boubakri scored additional places on the Tunisian team as the highest-ranked fencers vying for qualification from Africa in their respective individual events of the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.

Men

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Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohamed Samandi	Foil	Bye	Shikine (JPN) L 4–15	Did not advance
Farès Ferjani	Sabre	Bye	Berrè (ITA) L 10–15	Did not advance

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sarra Besbes	Épée	Bye	Isola (ITA) L 12–14	Did not advance
Inès Boubakri	Foil	Bye	Korobeynikova (ROC) L 3–15	Did not advance
Nadia Ben Azizi	Sabre	Bhavani Devi (IND) L 3–15	Did not advance
Amira Ben Chaabane		Bye	Pusztai (HUN) L 12–15	Did not advance
Yasmine Daghfous		Katona (HUN) L 6–15	Did not advance
Nadia Ben Azizi Amira Ben Chaabane Yasmine Daghfous Olfa Hezami	Team sabre	—N/a	Japan L 29–45	Did not advance

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Tunisia qualified three female judoka for each of the following weight classes at the Games. Nihel Landolsi (women's middleweight, 70 kg), with Nihal Chikhrouhou competing in the women's heavyweight category (+78 kg) at her fourth consecutive Olympics, was selected among the top 18 judoka of their respective weight categories based on the IJF World Ranking List of June 28, 2021, while Ghofran Khelifi (women's lightweight, 57 kg) accepted a continental berth from Africa as the nation's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position.^[7]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ghofran Khelifi	Women's –57 kg	Ilieva (BUL) L 00–10	Did not advance
Nihel Landolsi	Women's –70 kg	Bernholm (SWE) L 00–10	Did not advance
Nihal Chikhrouhou	Women's +78 kg	Adlington (GBR) W 10–00	Xu Sy (CHN) L 00–10	Did not advance

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Tunisia qualified one boat in the women's lightweight double sculls for the Games by winning the gold medal and securing an outright berth at the 2019 FISA African Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tunis.^[8][9]

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Tunisian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2021 Lanzarote International Regatta and the 2021 Mussanah Open.

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Tunisian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and African Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.^[10]

Tunisian swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[11][12]

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ahmed Hafnaoui	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:45.68	8 Q	3:43.36
	Men's 800 m freestyle	7:49.14	=10	Did not advance
Oussama Mellouli	Men's 10 km open water	—N/a		1:56:33.3	20

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Tunisia entered two athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. 2010 Youth Olympic bronze medalist Adem Hmam and Fadwa Garci scored their semifinal victories to occupy one of the four available spots each in the men's and women's singles, respectively, at the 2020 African Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tunis.^[13]

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Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Adem Hmam	Men's singles	Bye	Kou (UKR) L 0–4	Did not advance
Fadwa Garci	Women's singles	Batmönkh (MGL) L 1–4	Did not advance

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Tunisia entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi secured a spot in the men's flyweight category (58 kg) with a top two finish at the 2020 African Qualification Tournament in Rabat, Morocco.^[14]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi	Men's −58 kg	Artamonov (ROC) W 25–18	Demse (ETH) W 32–9	Jang J (KOR) W 25–19	Bye	Dell'Aquila (ITA) L 12–16

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Tunisia entered one tennis player into the Olympic tournament. Playing in the court at her third straight Games, Ons Jabeur (world no. 26) qualified directly as one of the top 56 official entrants in the women's singles based on the WTA World Rankings of June 13, 2021.^[15]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ons Jabeur	Women's singles	Suárez (ESP) L 4–6, 1–6	Did not advance

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Tunisia entered five weightlifters (three men and two women) into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian Karem Ben Hnia finished sixth of the eight highest-ranked weightlifters in the men's 73 kg category based on the IWF Absolute World Rankings, with rookies Ramzi Bahloul (men's 81 kg), Aymen Bacha (men's 109 kg), Chaima Rahmouni (women's 64 kg), and 2014 Youth Olympic bronze medalist Nouha Landoulsi (women's 55 kg) topping the field of weightlifters vying for qualification from Africa in their respective weight categories based on the IWF Absolute Continental Rankings.

Tunisia qualified ten wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition; all of whom advanced to the top two finals to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (65 and 97 kg), men's Greco-Roman (67, 77, 97, and 130 kg) and women's freestyle wrestling (50, 57, 62, and 76 kg) at the 2021 African & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Hammamet.^[18][19][20]

Freestyle

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Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Haithem Dakhlaoui	Men's −65 kg	Ghiasi (IRI) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance				13
Mohamed Saadaoui	Men's −97 kg	Nurov (MKD) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance				15
Sarra Hamdi	Women's −50 kg	Bisla (IND) W 3–1 PP	Stadnik (AZE) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance			9
Siwar Bousetta	Women's −57 kg	Kit (UKR) L 0–5 VT	Did not advance				15
Marwa Amri	Women's −62 kg	Johansson (SWE) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance				15
Zaineb Sghaier	Women's −76 kg	Gray (USA) L 0–5 VT	Did not advance		Adar (TUR) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance	16

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Greco-Roman

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Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Souleymen Nasr	Men's −67 kg	Al-Obaidi (EOR) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance				15
Lamjed Maafi	Men's −77 kg	Makhmudov (KGZ) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance				13
Haykel Achouri	Men's −97 kg	Michalik (POL) L 0–4 ST	Did not advance				16
Amine Guennichi	Men's −130 kg	Acosta (CHI) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance				11

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