2025 African Wrestling Championships

2025 African Wrestling Championships
Host city	Casablanca, Morocco
Dates	29 April-4 May 2025
Stadium	Salle Mohammed V
Champions
Freestyle	Egypt
Greco-Roman	Egypt
Women	Nigeria
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The 2025 Seniors, U20, U17 African Wrestling Championships was the 40th edition of African Wrestling Championships of combined events, and took place from 29 April to 4 May in Casablanca, Morocco. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Seniors

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Morocco)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt	11	8	5	24
2	Nigeria	10	1	1	12
3	Algeria	5	8	3	16
4	Tunisia	1	4	5	10
5	Morocco*	1	3	8	12
6	Guinea-Bissau	1	1	2	4
7	Cameroon	1	0	1	2
8	Senegal	0	2	2	4
9	Ivory Coast	0	2	0	2
10	South Africa	0	1	0	1
11	DR Congo	0	0	6	6
12	Cape Verde	0	0	2	2
	Ghana	0	0	2	2
14	Benin	0	0	1	1
	Central African Republic	0	0	1	1
	Madagascar	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		30	30	40	100

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Egypt	182	Egypt	235	Nigeria	225
2	Morocco	110	Morocco	160	Algeria	116
3	Algeria	105	Algeria	125	Egypt	115
4	Senegal	102	Democratic Republic of the Congo	76	Morocco	113
5	Nigeria	83	Kenya	60	Tunisia	75
6	Guinea-Bissau	75	Tunisia	55	South Africa	51
7	Democratic Republic of the Congo	65	Namibia	32	Ivory Coast	40
8	Tunisia	60	Benin	27	Madagascar	23
9	South Africa	58	Angola	24	Senegal	18
10	Cameroon	56	South Africa	19	Cameroon	17

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Diamantino Iuna Fafé   Guinea-Bissau	Salah Eddine Kateb   Algeria	Omar Faye   Senegal
			Roland Nforsong   Cameroon
61 kg	Hassan Mohamed Elsayed   Egypt	Didier Diatta   Senegal	Khalil Barkouti   Tunisia
			Redouane Sissaoui   Algeria
65 kg	Stephen Izolo   Nigeria	Farouk Jelassi   Tunisia	Said Ibrahim Elgahsh   Egypt
			Wotna Cana Ndoc   Guinea-Bissau
70 kg	Khairiddine Ben Tlili   Tunisia	Mohamed Elsayed Ahmed   Egypt	Tope Joshua Adebayo   Nigeria
			Gabriel Muanda   DR Congo
74 kg	Omar Mohamed Mourad   Egypt	Saad Bouguerra   Algeria	Caetano Antonio Sa   Guinea-Bissau
			João Barbosa Vicente   Cape Verde
79 kg	Abdelkader Ikkal   Algeria	Mohammed Amine Bouziane   Morocco	Andy Mukendi   DR Congo
			Mbaye Diop   Senegal
86 kg	Ahmed Khaled Mahmoud   Egypt	Siny Sembène   Senegal	Houssem Oucif   Algeria
			Matteo Monteiro   Cape Verde
92 kg	Cédric Abossolo   Cameroon	Ebikeme Newlife   Nigeria	Mohamed Adel Ahmed   Egypt
97 kg	Aabdelrahman Sheyatan   Egypt	Gino Intchala   Guinea-Bissau	Barthelemy Tshosha   DR Congo
125 kg	Oussama Assad   Morocco	Youssef Aboudawaba   Egypt	Issah Fuseini   Ghana

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Ahmed Hany Aly   Egypt	Adem Lamloum   Tunisia	Ayoub Sbete   Morocco
60 kg	Ahmed Abdelbary Shaban   Egypt	Mouad Jahid   Morocco	Rabby Kilandi   DR Congo
63 kg	Mohamed Yacine   Algeria	Youssef Mohamed   Egypt	Mouncif Mesrour   Morocco
67 kg	Mohamed Abdelrehim   Egypt	Ishak Ghaiou   Algeria	Oussama Nasr   Tunisia
72 kg	Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed   Egypt	Abdelmalek Merabet   Algeria	Walid Talbi   Morocco
			Yamine Atchiba   Benin
77 kg	Yehia Abdelkader   Egypt	Radhwen Tarhouni   Tunisia	Souhaib Khdar   Morocco
82 kg	Abd Ouakali   Algeria	Mohamed Dyab   Egypt	Elias Chiguer   Morocco
87 kg	Bachir Sid Azara   Algeria	Mahmoud Ibrahim   Egypt	Wadii Oualal   Morocco
97 kg	Mohamed Ali Gabr   Egypt	Hamza Boumadiene   Algeria	Barthelemy Tshosha   DR Congo
130 kg	Abdellatif Mohamed   Egypt	Wissam Kouainso   Morocco	Issah Fuseini   Ghana

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Mercy Genesis   Nigeria	Cheima Chebila   Algeria	Malak Ahmed   Egypt
53 kg	Christianah Ogunsanya   Nigeria	Nogona Bakayoko   Ivory Coast	Chahrazed Ayachi   Tunisia
			Sama Mahmoud   Egypt
55 kg	Adijat Idris   Nigeria	Achouak Tekouk   Algeria	Lobna Ichaoui   Tunisia
57 kg	Chaimaa Aouissi   Algeria	Chaima Dahi   Tunisia	Mamy Rasoanomenjanahary   Madagascar
59 kg	Jumoke Adekoye   Nigeria	Rahma Bediwy   Egypt	Chahed Jeljeli   Tunisia
62 kg	Esther Kolawole   Nigeria	Farah Ali Hamada Hussein   Egypt	Nawel Bahloul   Algeria
65 kg	Ebipatei Mughenbofa   Nigeria	Cara Linda Du Plessis   South Africa	Mouda Hamdoun   Egypt
			Lec Hej Marlyne Ande   Central African Republic
68 kg	Hannah Rueben   Nigeria	Mariam Mesbah   Egypt	Saadia Et Tammar   Morocco
72 kg	Ebi Biogos   Nigeria	Yasmine Bouregba   Algeria	Rosie Tabora   DR Congo
76 kg	Damola Ojo   Nigeria	Amy Youin   Ivory Coast	Rayhana Benrezik   Morocco

Participating nations

204 competitors from 23 nations participated:

1.   Algeria (19)
2.   Angola (5)
3.   Benin (5)
4.   Central African Republic (1)
5.   Ivory Coast (2)
6.   Cameroon (6)
7.   Democratic Republic of the Congo (15)
8.   Cape Verde (6)
9.   Egypt (27)
10.   Guinea-Bissau (5)
11.   Ghana (5)
12.   Guinea (1)
13.   Kenya (14)
14.   Madagascar (3)
15.   Morocco (30) (Host)
16.   Mauritius (2)
17.   Namibia (4)
18.   Nigeria (16)
19.   South Africa (13)
20.   Senegal (10)
21.   Sierra Leone (3)
22.   Tunisia (11)
23.   Uganda (1)

U-20 (Juniors)

Medal table (U-20)

  *   Host nation (Morocco)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt	16	7	0	23
2	Algeria	7	5	4	16
3	Tunisia	3	1	2	6
4	Morocco*	1	6	8	15
5	South Africa	1	5	3	9
6	Angola	1	3	0	4
7	DR Congo	0	1	6	7
8	Burundi	0	1	0	1
9	Kenya	0	0	3	3
	Namibia	0	0	3	3
Totals (10 entries)		29	29	29	87

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Egypt	175	Egypt	235	Egypt	165
2	Morocco	166	Morocco	144	Algeria	112
3	Algeria	130	Algeria	110	Morocco	95
4	South Africa	105	Democratic Republic of the Congo	62	South Africa	80
5	Democratic Republic of the Congo	45	South Africa	59	Kenya	65

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Ben Hachem Tarik   Morocco	Makaya Katendi   Angola	Ephraim Mwini   DR Congo
			Mouadh Chibani   Algeria
61 kg	Radouane Sissaoui   Algeria	Mokbel Sahli   Tunisia	Roehan du Plessis   South Africa
65 kg	Walid Ben Zamime   Tunisia	Amr Elshaer   Egypt	Gabriel Yanga   DR Congo
70 kg	Mohamed Ahmed   Egypt	Stefan Gouws   South Africa	Mourad Saad   Algeria
74 kg	Omar Mourad   Egypt	Jesse van Baalen   South Africa	Hamza Argoubi   Morocco
79 kg	Yahya Elgamal   Egypt	Omar Lambarraa   Morocco	Miche Ngangala   DR Congo
86 kg	Houssem Oucif   Algeria	Mohamed El Mekkaoui   Morocco	Brendt Kriessbach   Namibia
92 kg	Abderrahmane Meziti   Algeria	Mohamed Ahmed   Egypt	Ahmed Rajay   Morocco
97 kg	Aabdelrahman Sheyatan   Egypt	Leander Steyn   South Africa	Riad El Hariri   Morocco
125 kg	Youssef Aboudawaba   Egypt	Ryad Bouchareb   Morocco	Noureddine Bouroufa   Algeria

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Mohamed Shaaban   Algeria	Abdallah Dahmani   Morocco	Teophilus Seveleni   Namibia
60 kg	Ahmed Shaban   Egypt	Adel Fegas   Algeria	Lazarus Haimbodi   Namibia
63 kg	Amr Elshaer   Egypt	Zakaria Hacini   Algeria	Youssef Karim   Morocco
67 kg	Mohamed Abdelrehim   Egypt	Miguel Antonio   Angola	Gabriel Yanga   DR Congo
72 kg	Mohamed Ibrahim   Egypt	Miguel Antonio   Angola	Gabriel Yanga   DR Congo
77 kg	Omar Mourad   Egypt	Harryson Nsiamaza   DR Congo	Neil Scholtz   South Africa
82 kg	Dhiyaeddine Remmache   Algeria	Yaya Elgamal   Egypt	Miche Ngangala   DR Congo
87 kg	Bilel Hafdallah   Tunisia	Mohamed Ahmed   Egypt	Youssef El Badaoui   Morocco
97 kg	Noureddine Bouroufa   Algeria	Youssef Raya   Egypt	Anwar Belfakih   Morocco
130 kg	Youssef Aboudawaba   Egypt	Mustapha Abidi   Morocco	None awarded

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Chloe Brewis   South Africa	Malak Ahmed   Egypt	Douaa Khenchouche   Algeria
53 kg	Sama Mahmoud   Egypt	Fatima Bouchibi   Algeria	Vivian Odongo   Kenya
55 kg	Salma Elbostany   Egypt	Dounia Zitouni   Algeria	Chaima Dahi   Tunisia
57 kg	Chahd Jeljeli   Tunisia	Douaa Bhar   Morocco	Ivyone Masibo   Kenya
59 kg	Rahma Bediwy   Egypt	Gloria Niyonkuru   Burundi	Saida Cheridi   Tunisia
62 kg	Ritag Elmalty   Egypt	Katelyn Swan   South Africa	Salma El Ofer   Morocco
65 kg	Mouda Hamdoun   Egypt	Selsabil Rouabah   Algeria	Jessica Eagar   South Africa
68 kg	Joseth Mavungu   Angola	Mariam Mesbah   Egypt	Faith Wamalwa   Kenya
72 kg	Yasmine Bouregba   Algeria	Eryn Marais   South Africa	Marwa Khoudri   Morocco

Participating nations

127 competitors from 11 nations participated:

1.   Algeria (17)
2.   Angola (7)
3.   Burundi (2)
4.   Democratic Republic of the Congo (8)
5.   Egypt (25)
6.   Kenya (11)
7.   Madagascar (2)
8.   Morocco (28) (Host)
9.   Namibia (5)
10.   South Africa (16)
11.   Tunisia (6)

U-17 (Cadets)

Medal table (U-17)

  *   Host nation (Morocco)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria	9	6	1	16
2	Egypt	9	4	1	14
3	DR Congo	4	1	0	5
4	Tunisia	3	3	10	16
5	South Africa	2	6	5	13
6	Angola	1	5	2	8
7	Morocco*	1	1	5	7
8	Kenya	0	2	3	5
9	Burundi	0	1	0	1
10	Madagascar	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		29	29	28	86

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	South Africa	141	Egypt	165	South Africa	100
2	Algeria	140	Algeria	140	Morocco	96
3	Egypt	117	Tunisia	132	Kenya	95
4	Morocco	112	Morocco	96	Algeria	90
5	Tunisia	109	Angola	75	Tunisia	80

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
45 kg	Youcef Boukhalfa   Algeria	Motuim Ahmed   Egypt	Anouar Rajay   Morocco
48 kg	Anis Bouguerra   Algeria	Mohamed Ben Salah   Tunisia	Henrique Ngoma   Angola
51 kg	Makaya Katendi   Angola	Houdaifa Barkat   Algeria	Mohamed Aziz Arfaoui   Tunisia
55 kg	Abderrazak Chenini   Algeria	Mustapha Batnini   Tunisia	Youssef Aboushoala   Egypt
60 kg	Juan Groenewald   South Africa	Diasivi Renato   Angola	Mohamed Ben Hamed   Tunisia
65 kg	Gradi Mantu Diwa   DR Congo	Tahar Djeffal   Algeria	Ruan Nel   South Africa
71 kg	Miscael Nzuzi Nkunga   DR Congo	Marthinus de Wet   South Africa	Raphael Mpandresy   Madagascar
80 kg	Yassin Ezzat   Egypt	Dario Lundequesse   Angola	Andru de Beer   South Africa
92 kg	Abderrahmane Meziti   Algeria	Youssef Raya   Egypt	Christiaan Boshoff   South Africa
110 kg	Essam Hussein   Egypt	Willem Piet Human   South Africa	Amen Kouki   Tunisia

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
45 kg	Mohamed Rayen Salhi   Tunisia	Motuim Ahmed   Egypt	Walid Es-Sahbani   Morocco
48 kg	Mohamed Emad El-Tayeb   Egypt	Mohamed Ben Salah   Tunisia	Henrique Ngoma   Angola
51 kg	Youssef Aboushala   Egypt	Makaya Katendi   Angola	Mohamed Arfaoui   Tunisia
55 kg	Kheireddine Ghaouar   Algeria	Mohamed Shaaban   Egypt	Mustapha Batnini   Tunisia
60 kg	Wail Benaissa   Algeria	Diasivi Renato   Angola	Mohamed Ben Hamed   Tunisia
65 kg	Gradi Mantu Diwa   DR Congo	Ademteje Dechache   Algeria	Amen Jandoubi   Tunisia
71 kg	Firas Hamata   Algeria	Miscael Nzuzi Nkunga   DR Congo	Abdeljalil Benelyassar   Morocco
80 kg	Yassin Ezzat   Egypt	Dario Lundequesse   Angola	Mohamed Amine Ferchichi   Tunisia
92 kg	Youssef Ali Raya   Egypt	Christiaan Pieter Boshoff   South Africa	Skander Benmohamed   Algeria
110 kg	Essam Hussein   Egypt	Mounder Djemouai   Algeria	Willem Piet Human   South Africa

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
43 kg	Mareim Ahmed Abdelaal   Egypt	Meriem Safiya Grib   Algeria	Islam Benzbiria   Morocco
46 kg	Rahma Rezgui   Tunisia	Liesse Rukundorwimana   Burundi	Fatima Zahra El-Fririkh   Morocco
49 kg	Emna Hammami   Tunisia	Hajar Kaneb   Morocco	Shalying Joy   Kenya
53 kg	Dounia Zitouni   Algeria	Vivian Adhiambo Odongo   Kenya	Mouna Snoussi   Tunisia
57 kg	Bometela Noella Madundu   DR Congo	Shannon Jansen van Rensburg   South Africa	Joy Lichuma Wafula   Kenya
61 kg	Ritag Elmaty   Egypt	Melissa Boussaidi   Algeria	Katelyn Swan   South Africa
65 kg	Selsabil Rouabah   Algeria	Jessica Ogechukwu Eagar   South Africa	Jemimah Wanjala   Kenya
69 kg	Eryn Jenna Marais   South Africa	Janet Ingwesi Omumasaba   Kenya	None awarded
73 kg	Malak Sabry   Morocco	Dune van Zyl   South Africa	Molka Bouzayani   Tunisia

Participating nations

133 competitors from 14 nations participated:

1.   Algeria (17)
2.   Angola (8)
3.   Burundi (3)
4.   Central African Republic (1)
5.   Cameroon (1)
6.   Democratic Republic of the Congo (5)
7.   Egypt (15)
8.   Ghana (1)
9.   Kenya (14)
10.   Madagascar (1)
11.   Morocco (26) (Host)
12.   Namibia (2)
13.   South Africa (19)
14.   Tunisia (20)

References

1. "African Championships". United World Wrestling . Retrieved 30 April 2025.
2. "African Championships 2025 Entries". United World Wrestling . Retrieved 30 April 2025.
3. "African Wrestling Championships – Casablanca 2025 Schedule". wrestlingafricanchampionshipscasablanca25.org. Retrieved 30 April 2025.

External links

• UWW Official Website
• Results Book