Tunisia ranks second with 112 medals

Tunisia kept its second rank at the medals table, on Tuesday in Doha, at the end of day-10 of the Doha 2011 Pan-Arab Games, garnering in all 112 medals:  42 gold, 35 silver and 35 bronze. Tunisian sportspeople won on the single day-10 of the Games 5 gold medals, including 4 in the swimming contests, thanks to Oussama Mallouli—who reaped 3 (400m freestyle, 50 m butterfly and 100m backstroke)-- and the men's relay team who won one at the 4x100m freestyle competition. The 5th gold medal was awarded to karateka Kaouther Hasnaoui (+68 kg). Tunisia also won 8 silver medals: 3 in sailing, 2 in athletics by Dorra Mahfoudhi (pole vault) and Hamdi Dhouibi (decathlon), 1 in fencing by Ines Boubakri (single foil),  1 in free wrestling by Rochdi Rhimi (96 kg), 1 in swimming by Sarra Lajnef (100m breaststroke) and 1 in cycling by Nour Dissem. Five bronze medals were awarded in the boxing events to Abderrazak Haouia (-64 Kg), fencing to Ayoub Ferjani, karate to Bouthaina Hasanoui (-61 Kg) and Ridha Ouaz (+84 Kg), swimming to women's relay team in the 4x100m freestyle contest and free wrestling to Bilel Ben Douissa (60 Kg). Egypt is far ahead of the participating countries with a total of 206 medals, including 80 gold; Qatar is third with 100 medals, including 32 gold.