Jihad Benchlikha
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Jihad Benchlikha (born January 6, 1992) is a Moroccan professional
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
player. He currently plays for the
FAR Rabat Association sportive des Forces armées royales (, ), abbreviated as AS FAR (), is a professional sport club based in Morocco's capital Rabat, that competes in Botola, the top tier of Moroccan football. The club was founded in 1958, 3 years aft ...
club of the
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and the Nationale 1, Morocco's first division. Benchlikha represented Morocco's national basketball team at the
2017 AfroBasket FIBA AfroBasket 2017 was the 29th edition of the AfroBasket, a men's basketball continental championship of Africa. The tournament was jointly hosted by Tunisia and Senegal. Angola was proposed by FIBA Africa to host the tournament, an offer decl ...
in
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and
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. He won the 2023 FIBA AfroCan with Morocco, and was named to the All-Tournament Team.


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1992 births Living people Shooting guards Moroccan men's basketball players Sportspeople from Kenitra 21st-century Moroccan sportsmen {{Morocco-bio-stub