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Place of Birth: Ouadhia District, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria
About Rachida Ouerdane
- Rachida Ouerdane (Arabic: ????? ??????; born 2 May 1979) is an Algerian judoka, who competed in the middleweight category.
- She is a three-time champion at the African Judo Championships, and a two-time medalist at the Mediterranean Games.
- She also won a gold medal in the same division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers.Ouerdane made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she lost the first preliminary match of women's middleweight class (70 kg), with a waza-ari (half-point) and a kosoto gake (small outer hook), to China's Qin Dongya. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ouerdane competed for the second time in the women's 70 kg class.
- She received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out by a waza-ari to Netherlands' Edith Bosch.
- Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Ouerdane offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Fiji's Sisilia Nasiga, with an ippon and a sankaku gatame (arm crush triangular arm lock), in the first repechage bout.
- Unfortunately, she finished only in ninth place, after losing out the second repechage bout to United States' Ronda Rousey, who successfully scored an ippon and a kuzure-kesa-gatame (broken scarf mat hold), in two minutes.
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