Personal information | |
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Born | 31 January 1997 |
Sport | |
Country | Libya |
Sport | Archery |
Event | Recurve |
Updated on 26 July 2016 |
Ali El Ghrari (born 31 January 1997) is a male Libyan recurve archer. He competed in the archery competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the first Libyan to do so. [1]
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