Rachida Ouerdane

Rachida Ouerdane (Arabic: رشيدة وردان; born 2 May 1979) is an Algerian judoka, who competed in the middleweight category.

[3] 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.

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.