Chakir Ansari ( ar, شاكير أنصاري; born June 22, 1991) is a
Moroccan freestyle wrestler
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. He is the first
Moroccan freestyle wrestler
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...
qualified in
Olympic Games
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. He competed in the
men's freestyle 57 kg event at the
2016 Summer Olympics, in which he was eliminated in the round of 32 by
Asadulla Lachinau.
He won the African title in Marrakech 2017.
In 2021, he competed at the
2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament hoping to qualify for the
2020 Summer Olympics
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in Tokyo, Japan.
Major results
See also
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Morocco at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 14 to 21 August at the Carioca Arena 2 in Barra da Tijuca. Wrestling had been split into two disciplines, freestyle and Greco-Roman, which were further divided into differe ...
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2015 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 57 kg
References
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1991 births
Living people
Moroccan male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers of Morocco
Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 2019 African Games
African Games medalists in wrestling
African Games bronze medalists for Morocco
African Wrestling Championships medalists
21st-century Moroccan people
Sportspeople from Clermont-Ferrand
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