# Faouzi Rzig

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{{short description|Tunisian Paralympic athlete}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age text|9 July 1982}}
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{{MedalSport|Men's [para-athletics](/source/para-athletics)}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[Paralympic Games](/source/Paralympic_Games)}}
{{MedalGold| [2008 Beijing](/source/2008_Summer_Paralympics) | [Javelin Throw – F33/34/52](/source/Athletics_at_the_2008_Summer_Paralympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_javelin_throw_F33%2F34%2F52)}}
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'''Faouzi Rzig''' (born 9 July 1982),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jobosport.nl/userfiles/documents/34.pdf |title=Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games - Official results book: Athletics |website=jobosport.nl |date=5 September 2008 |access-date=29 December 2018 |archive-date=29 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229143727/http://www.jobosport.nl/userfiles/documents/34.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> also known as '''Fawzi Rzig''', is a [Paralympian](/source/Paralympian) [athlete](/source/Track_and_field) from [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia) competing mainly in category F35 javelin events.

Rzig finished fourth in the F35 javelin in the [2004 Summer Paralympics](/source/2004_Summer_Paralympics) in [Athens](/source/Athens), and four years later in [Beijing](/source/2008_Summer_Paralympics) he achieved the gold medal for the combined F33/34/52 class javelin throw.

He also competed in the [2012 Summer Paralympics](/source/2012_Summer_Paralympics), as well as in [2016](/source/2016_Summer_Paralympics) and [2020](/source/2020_Summer_Paralympics), exclusively in javelin events.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/faouzi-rzig|publisher= International Paralympic Committee|title=Faouzi Rzig|access-date=29 August 2025}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IPC athlete|faouzi-rzig|old_id=687953}}

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Category:1982 births
Category:Living people
Category:Tunisian men javelin throwers
Category:Paralympic athletes for Tunisia
Category:Paralympic gold medalists for Tunisia
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:21st-century Tunisian sportsmen

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