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Asmahan Boudjadar

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Asmahan Boudjadar
Personal information
National teamAlgeria
Born (1980-06-30) 30 June 1980 (age 44)
Constantine, Algeria
Sport
CountryAlgeria
SportPara-athletics
Disability classF33
Event(s)Javelin throw
Shot put
Medal record
Representing  Algeria
Women's para athletics
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Shot put F33
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Shot put F33
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Paris Shot put F33

Asmahan Boudjadar is an Algerian athlete competing in the shot put and javelin. She won the gold medal in the F33 shot put at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Career

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Asmahan Boudjadar competed in the shot put at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar. She threw a no mark in the final, ending in last place.[1] In March 2016, she broke the African F33 shot put record with a throw of 5.56 metres (18.2 ft) at the IPC Athletes Grand Prix in Dubai.[2] Boudjadar also threw in the javelin, where she set a new F33 world record.[3]

She competed in her first Summer Paralympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later that year. Taking part in the women's F33 shot put, she won the gold medal with a new African record of 5.72 metres (18.8 ft), ahead of Qatar's Sara Hamdi Masoud and Sara Alesanaani of the United Arab Emirates in second and third place respectively. Boudjadar spoke after the event, saying that she felt it was her revenge after the results at the previous World Championships.[4] In the first Grand Prix event of 2017, she broke the javelin world record once again, with a throw of 12.82 metres (42.1 ft).[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Results - Women's Shot Put F33 Final". Paralympic.org. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Germany's Nicoleitzik and Italy's Corso smash world records at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix". Around the Rings. 18 March 2016. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Three world records fall at Dubai Grand Prix". Paralympic.org. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Paralympiques : deux médailles d'Or pour Nouioua et Boudjadar, et du bronze pour Hamdi". Algerie Patriotique. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
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