Rachida Ouerdane

{{Short description|Algerian judoka (born 1979)}}

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| weight = 70 kg

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{{MedalSport | Women's judo}}

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{{MedalCompetition|All-Africa Games}}

{{MedalGold|2007 Algiers | 70 kg }}

{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}

{{MedalSilver|2001 Tunis | 70 kg }}

{{MedalBronze|2009 Pescara | 70 kg }}

{{MedalCompetition|African Judo Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2004 Tunis | 70 kg }}

{{MedalGold|2006 Port Louis | 70 kg }}

{{MedalGold|2008 Agadir | 70 kg }}

{{MedalSilver|2001 Tripoli|70 kg }}

{{MedalBronze|2000 Algiers|70 kg }}

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Rachida Ouerdane ({{langx|ar|رشيدة وردان}}; born 2 May 1979) is an Algerian judoka, who competed in the middleweight category.{{cite sports-reference|title = Rachida Ouerdane|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ou/rachida-ouerdane-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418053126/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ou/rachida-ouerdane-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 23 December 2012}} She is a three-time champion at the African Judo Championships, and a two-time medalist at the Mediterranean Games.{{cite news|title=Médaille de bronze pour la judokate Rachida Ouerdane (-78 kg)|trans-title=Bronze medal for judoka Rachida Ouerdane (78 kg)|language=French|url=http://www.city-dz.com/medaille-de-bronze-pour-la-judokate-rachida-ouerdane-78-kg/|publisher=City DZ|date=5 July 2009|accessdate=23 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130119111159/http://www.city-dz.com/medaille-de-bronze-pour-la-judokate-rachida-ouerdane-78-kg/|archivedate=19 January 2013}} She also won a gold medal in the same division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers.{{cite news|last=Aflou|first=Lyes|title=First medals claimed in All Africa Games|url=http://magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/07/13/feature-02|publisher=Magharebia|date=13 July 2007|accessdate=23 December 2012}}

Ouerdane made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she lost the first preliminary match of women's middleweight class (70 kg), with a waza-ari (half-point) and a kosoto gake (small outer hook), to China's Qin Dongya.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ouerdane competed for the second time in the women's 70 kg class. She received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out by a waza-ari to Netherlands' Edith Bosch.{{cite web|title=Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070403/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=23 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821141458/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070403/index.html|archive-date=21 August 2012|url-status=dead}} Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Ouerdane offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Fiji's Sisilia Nasiga, with an ippon and a sankaku gatame (arm crush triangular arm lock), in the first repechage bout. Unfortunately, she finished only in ninth place, after losing out the second repechage bout to United States' Ronda Rousey, who successfully scored an ippon and a kuzure-kesa-gatame (broken scarf mat hold), in two minutes.{{cite web|title=Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Repechage|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070452/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=23 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821140225/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070452/index.html|archive-date=21 August 2012|url-status=dead}}