Algerian weightlifters Aymen Touiri and Far\u00e8s Touiri have secured gold medals at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy, adding to the nation's growing success at the competition. Aymen Touiri clinched a gold medal in the 110 kg clean and jerk event, where he lifted 109 kg in his top attempt to claim the lead. This victory marked Algeria's second gold in weightlifting at the games.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Far\u00e8s Touiri earned his own gold medal in the 95 kg clean and jerk event, successfully lifting 169 kg. Demonstrating further strength, Far\u00e8s Touiri also secured a bronze medal in the 95 kg snatch event, achieving a lift of 195 kg. His bronze medal was won less than an hour after his gold performance, highlighting a strong day for the athlete.<\/p>\n
These remarkable performances by the Touiri brothers have substantially increased Algeria's provisional medal tally at the Mediterranean Games. With one day remaining in the competition, Algeria's cumulative count stands at 32 medals, comprising 8 gold, 7 silver, and 17 bronze, placing the nation provisionally in ninth position overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Algerian weightlifters Aymen and Far\u00e8s Touiri earned multiple medals at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto, with Aymen securing a gold and Far\u00e8s winning both a gold and a bronze. These achievements significantly boost Algeria’s provisional medal count at the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}