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Zaineb Sghaier
	Zaineb Sghaier in 2018 (wearing black)
Personal information
Born	25 September 2002 (age 21)
Sport
Country	Tunisia
Sport	Amateur wrestling
Weight class	72 kg; 76 kg;
Event	Freestyle
Medal record
Women's freestyle wrestling
Representing Tunisia
African Championships

Zaineb Sghaier (born 25 September 2002) is a Tunisian freestyle wrestler. She is a four-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the African Wrestling Championships. She also represented Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

Sghaier competed in the girls' freestyle 65 kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She finished in 7th place.

At the 2020 African Wrestling Championships held in Algiers, Algeria, Sghaier won the gold medal in the women's 72 kg event.^[1] She qualified at the 2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament to represent Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.^[2]^[3] She competed in the women's freestyle 76 kg event.^[4] She lost her first match, against eventual silver medalist Adeline Gray of the United States, and she was then eliminated in the repechage by Yasemin Adar of Turkey.^[4] Adar won one of the bronze medals in the competition.^[4]

In November 2021, Sghaier competed in the 72 kg event at the U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.^[5] She won the silver medal in her event at the 2022 African Wrestling Championships held in El Jadida, Morocco.^[6] A few months later, she competed in the 76 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria. She was eliminated in her first match by eventual bronze medalist Kendra Dacher of France. She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Tunis Ranking Series event held in Tunis, Tunisia.^[7]

Sghaier won the bronze medal in her event at the 2023 African Wrestling Championships held in Hammamet, Tunisia.^[8] She won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg event at the 2024 African Wrestling Championships held in Alexandria, Egypt.

Year	Tournament	Location	Result	Event
2020	African Championships	Algiers, Algeria	1st	Freestyle 72 kg
2022	African Championships	El Jadida, Morocco	2nd	Freestyle 72 kg
2023	African Championships	Hammamet, Tunisia	3rd	Freestyle 72 kg
2024	African Championships	Alexandria, Egypt	1st	Freestyle 76 kg

^ "2020 African Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
^ Shefferd, Neil (3 April 2021). "Hosts Tunisia claim four more Tokyo 2020 berths on day two of UWW Africa and Oceania Olympic qualifier". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ "2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
^ "2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
^ "2022 African Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ "2022 Zouhaier Sghaier Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ "2023 African Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2023. Retrieved 22 May 2023.