Ahmed Tarbi

Algerian weightlifter Ahmed Tarbi won multiple national titles along with a plethora of medals at competitions across Africa. In a career that spanned more than two decades, Tarbi won his first national title in 1971. Four years later he won silver in the flyweight at the Mediterranean Games, before winning another silver at the Games in 1983, this time as a bantamweight. In between these podium finishes Tarbi also finished 11th in the bantamweight class at the 1980 Moskva Olympics with a total lift of 240.0 kg.

In 1984 Tarbi returned to the Olympics for the Los Angeles Games, but his participation was overshadowed with a positive test for nandrolone. He returned to competitions at the end of the decade, winning gold at the All-Africa Games in 1987 and 1991, along with gold at the African Weightlifting Championships in 1988 and 1992.