Kaouther Mohamed Belkebir (born 5 August 2003) is an Algerian fencer. She is ranked 310th internationally, and represented her country at the 2020 Olympics. [1]
She was a bronze medalist at the 2019 African Fencing Championships in Bamako. [2]
In April 2021, she won the African Olympic Qualification Tournament in Cairo, thus qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Belkebir represented Algeria at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, losing 15-1 to China's Yang Hengyu at the Women's Sabre Individual event. She ranked 35th. [3]
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