Amar Benikhlef is a four-time African champion and having won a total of seven continental medals, he was the silver medallist at the 2007 Pan-African Games in front of a home crowd in Algiers.

He won the silver medal at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games, losing to then world champion, Georgia’s Irakli Tsirekidze, in the final.

Benikhlef is now regularly present on the international circuit as a coach of Algeria’s national team.