Soraya Haddad


Abderrahmane Benamadi

Judokas Abderrahmane Benamadi and Soraya Haddad were named Algeria's best sportsman and sportswoman of the year for 2005 in a survey co-organised by APS and Algerian Television. Benamadi was the runner-up in the 81kg weight class at the world championships, while Haddad was a bronze medalist at the event.

Mustapha Larfaoui was elected sports personality of the year for 2005. The 73-year-old was re-elected last July in Montreal for a fifth consecutive term as head of the International Swimming Federation. He is also president of the African Swimming Confederation and the Union of the African Sporting Confederations. The former basketball and water polo player was also a founder of the Algerian Swimming Federation in 1962 and the Algerian Olympic Committee in 1963. (APS, Liberte, El Moudjahid, Le Soir d'Algerie)

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