Tarek Aziz Benaissa (; born 7 April 1991) is a lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Algeria who competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In 2012 he received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to Zaur Kuramagomedov, who scored one point each in two straight periods, leaving Benaissa without a single point. At the 2016 Rio Olympics Benaissa was eliminated in quarterfinals. At the 2015 World Wrestling Championships he lost a bronze medal match to Davor Štefanek.
Major results YearTournamentVenueResultEvent2011Pan Arab Games Doha, Qatar3rdGreco-Roman 60 kg2012African Championships Marrakesh, Morocco4thGreco-Roman 60 kgMediterranean Championships Larissa, Greece3rdGreco-Roman 60 kgOlympic Games London, Great Britain15thGreco-Roman 60 kg2013Mediterranean Games Mersin, Turkey8thGreco-Roman 66 kgWorld Championships Budapest, Hungary34thGreco-Roman 66 kg2014African Championships Tunis, Tunisia1stGreco-Roman 66 kgMediterranean Championships Kanjiža, Serbia3rdGreco-Roman 66 kg2015African Championships Alexandria, Egypt3rdGreco-Roman 66 kgWorld Championships Las Vegas, United States5thGreco-Roman 66 kgAfrican Games Brazzaville, Congo1stGreco-Roman 66 kgMilitary World Games Mungyeong, South Korea13thGreco-Roman 66 kg2016African Championships Alexandria, Egypt2ndGreco-Roman 66 kgOlympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil8thGreco-Roman 66 kg2017African Championships Marrakesh, Morocco2ndGreco-Roman 66 kgWorld Championships Paris, France16thGreco-Roman 71 kg2018Mediterranean Championships Algiers, Algeria1stGreco-Roman 72 kgWorld Championships Budapest, Hungary5thGreco-Roman 72 kg2019African Championships Hammamet, Tunisia1stGreco-Roman 72 kg2020African Championships Algiers, Algeria3rdGreco-Roman 72 kg
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