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Ghofran Khelifi
Personal information
Born	9 July 1998 (age 25)
Occupation	Judoka
Sport
Country	Tunisia
Sport	Judo
Weight class	57 kg
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing Tunisia
African Games
African Championships
Mediterranean Games
Profile at external databases
IJF	15570
JudoInside.com	105956
	Updated on 7 November 2021.

Ghofran Khelifi (born 9 July 1998)^[1] is a Tunisian judoka. She is a gold medalist at the African Games. She is also a three-time gold medalist at the African Judo Championships. She represented Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.^[2]

Career

She won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the 2017 African Judo Championships held in Antananarivo, Madagascar. A year later, she won one of the bronze medals in this event at the 2018 African Judo Championships held in Tunis, Tunisia. In that year, she also won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2018 Mediterranean Games held in Tarragona, Spain.^[3] In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the African Judo Championships held in Cape Town, South Africa.^[4]^[5] At the 2020 African Judo Championships held in Antananarivo, Madagascar, she won one of the bronze medals in her event.

In January 2021, she competed in the women's 57 kg event at the Judo World Masters held in Doha, Qatar.^[6] At the 2021 African Judo Championships held in Dakar, Senegal, she won the gold medal in her event.^[7] In June 2021, she competed in the women's 57 kg event at the World Judo Championships held in Budapest, Hungary where she was eliminated in her first match by Sanne Verhagen of the Netherlands.

She competed in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan where she was eliminated in her first match by Ivelina Ilieva of Bulgaria.^[2]

Year	Tournament	Place	Weight class
2017	African Championships	1st	−57 kg
2018	African Championships	3rd	−57 kg
2018	Mediterranean Games	3rd	−57 kg
2019	African Championships	1st	−57 kg
2019	African Games	1st	−57 kg
2020	African Championships	3rd	−57 kg
2021	African Championships	1st	−57 kg

^ "Ghofran Khelifi". JudoInside.com. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Judo Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
^ "Judo Medalists" (PDF). 2018 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
^ "2019 African Judo Championships". African Judo Union. Archived from the original on 4 September 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
^ Etchells, Daniel (25 April 2019). "Home favourite Whitebooi strikes gold on opening day of African Senior Judo Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "2021 Judo World Masters". International Judo Federation. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^ Rowbottom, Mike (21 May 2021). "Giantkiller Samy falls in final at 2021 African Judo Championships in Dakar". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 21 May 2021.