Ahmed El Ouafi Boughéra

Ahmed El Ouafi Boughéra

Acting

Birthday

1898/10/15

Day of death

1959/10/18 (61 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Ouled Djellal, Algérie

Also know as

أحمد بوقرة الوافي, El Ouafi Bouguera

Biography

Ahmed El Ouafi Boughéra (Arabic: أحمد بوقرة الوافي‎) is a French athlete and worker born October 15, 1898 in Ouled Djellal in Algeria and died October 18, 1959 in Saint-Denis in France. In 1928, he became the first indigenous African athlete to win an Olympic medal and even more so to be an Olympic champion by winning the marathon at the Summer Games in Amsterdam. His career made him a “symbol of the athlete forgotten by history” . Ahmed Boughera El Ouafi joins the French army and crosses the M...Read more

Acting
El Ouafi Boughera, Le marathonien de L'histoire
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(2018) El Ouafi Boughera, The marathon runner of history

as Self (archive footage)