Moroccan athletes participating in the Arab Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Women’s Wrestling Championship (U17 and U23), which takes place at the Sports Palace in Amman, added seven other medals to their purse, including five in gold and two in silver, at the end of the second day’s events played on Friday.
The women’s under-23 selection won two titles thanks to Zineb Ech-Chabki, winner in the -53 kg final against the Tunisian Nourhene Medhli (11-08), and Zineb Hassoune who also triumphed over another Tunisian , in this case Chahd Jeljeli, in the -57 kg final (4-1).
Among the men (-23 years old), Ismail Ettalbi (-63 kg) and Tarik Benhachem (-55 kg) climbed to the highest step of the podium in their competitions at the expense respectively of the Saudi Munthir Abdullah Jandu (21-12) and of the Algerian Sefiane Guezzania (11-07), while Wissam Kouainso dominated the -97 kg final over the Jordanian Yahia Hussein Abu Tabikh (12-08).
For their part, Mouad Jahid (-60 kg) and Saad Amandar (-87 kg) won silver in the Greco-Roman wrestling competition, after stumbling in the final to the Syrian Mhdassad Aldein Alosta (23-12) and the Saudi Mahmoud Mansour Hawsawi (17-14).
During the inaugural day, Moroccan wrestlers won three gold medals, the works of Tarik Benhachem (-57 kg) and Saad Amandar (-86 kg), in freestyle wrestling, and Malak Sabry (-73 kg), in women’s wrestling. .
“We are very proud and very satisfied with the results obtained by our wrestlers in this competition,” said the coach of the women’s national team, the Tunisian Faouzi Kharrazi.
“With a harvest of eight gold medals and two silver medals for nine wrestlers entered, we could not hope for better,” he argued in a statement to MAP, noting that the objective is to repeat this feat during upcoming events, starting with the under-17 world championship in Jordan and the African championship in Casablanca.
The Moroccan delegation, led by the second vice-president of the Royal Moroccan Federation of Associated Struggles, Mokhtar Fetouaki, also vice-president of the Arab Discipline Union, also includes judges Alaoui Moutouakil and Hicham Oubri.
Organized by the Jordanian Wrestling Federation in cooperation with the Arab Union, this event brings together nearly 200 wrestlers representing around ten countries.
