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Boughera El Ouafi

1898 - 1959

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Ahmed Boughera El Ouafi (Arabic: أحمد بوقرة الوافي; 1903 – 18 October 1959) was a French Algerian marathon runner who represented France at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, winning gold in the latter. He was largely unrecognized in his lifetime, facing discrimination in France due to his Algerian origin. He received posthumous recognition as a French athlete that was unappreciated in life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boughera El Ouafi is the 371st most popular athlete (up from 473rd in 2019), the 103rd most popular biography from Algeria (up from 117th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Boughera El Ouafi ranks 371 out of 6,025. Before him are Harald Grønningen, Gergely Kulcsár, Ludvík Daněk, Micheline Ostermeyer, Angela Voigt, and Elias Katz. After him are Launceston Elliot, Eugenio Monti, Franjo Mihalić, Elmer Niklander, Harold Osborn, and Peter Norman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Boughera El Ouafi ranks 156. Before him are Helen B. Taussig, Ira Sprague Bowen, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Anthony McAuliffe, and Carl-Gustaf Rossby. After him are Lev Knipper, Jimmy Douglas, Norman Vincent Peale, Mikhail Koshkin, Alfons Gorbach, and William Astbury. Among people deceased in 1959, Boughera El Ouafi ranks 116. Before him are Ki Hajar Dewantara, Edmund Gwenn, Kazimierz Bein, Lipót Fejér, Wayne Morris, and Reuven Shiloah. After him are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Ragnar Nurkse, Molla Mallory, Boris Eikhenbaum, Heleno de Freitas, and Edmund Goulding.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Boughera El Ouafi ranks 103 out of 213. Before him are Patrick Bruel (1959), Optatus (400), Lakhdar Belloumi (1958), Mouloud Mammeri (1917), Rachid Mekhloufi (1936), and Abdelaziz Djerad (1954). After him are Rabah Saâdane (1946), Abdelaziz Belkhadem (1945), Djamel Zidane (1955), Cheb Mami (1966), Ali Benflis (1944), and Belaid Abdessalam (1928).

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Among ATHLETES In Algeria

Among athletes born in Algeria, Boughera El Ouafi ranks 2. Before him are Alain Mimoun (1921). After him are Hassiba Boulmerka (1968), Noureddine Morceli (1970), Nouria Mérah-Benida (1970), Djabir Saïd-Guerni (1977), Ali Saïdi-Sief (1978), Amar Benikhlef (1982), Taoufik Makhloufi (1988), Abderrahmane Hammad (1977), Nassima Saifi (1988), and Abdelhafid Benchabla (1986).

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