Faicel (or Faycal) Jaballah (Arabic: فيصل جاب الله) (born 1 May 1988 in Nefta, Tunisia) is a Tunisian judoka. He is 1,96 m tall and weighs 130 kg.[1]
Achievements
At the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Faicel won a gold medal in +100 kg category.
Faicel competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +100 kg event, he defeated Yerzhan Shynkeyev before being eliminated by the 2011 world champion Teddy Riner.[2]
Faicel qualified for the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio.[3] He competed in the +100kg division, and defeated Roy Meyer and Islam El Shehaby before being defeated by Andreas Tölzer in the final match of the pool B.[4] In the repechage, Faicel defeated Ryu Shichinohe and advanced to face Adam Okruashvili for the third place in +100 kg category. He finished the competition in the third place, along with Andreas Tölzer. This result was the best achievement in his career so far.[5][6]
At the 2016 Olympics, he lost his first match to Barna Bor.[7]
At the 2021 African Judo Championships held in Dakar, Senegal, he won the gold medal in his event.[8]
References
External links
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
