Editing Tunisia (section)

=== Sports ===
{{main|Sport in Tunisia}}
[[File:CA - Radès.jpg|thumb|[[Stade Olympique Hammadi Agrebi|Stade Hammadi Agrebi]] in [[Radès]]]]
[[Association football|Football]] is the most popular sport in Tunisia. The [[Tunisia national football team]], also known as "The Eagles of Carthage", won the [[2004 African Cup of Nations]] ([[Africa Cup of Nations|ACN]]) as hosts.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/3485991.stm |title=Tunisia win Cup of Nations |work=BBC News |date=14 February 2004 |access-date=19 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.napit.co.uk/viewus/infobank/football/africiannationscup.php |title=Previous winners of major international cups And tournaments: the African Cup of Nations |publisher=Napit.co.uk |access-date=8 January 2013}}</ref> They also represented Africa in the [[2005 FIFA Confederations Cup|2005 FIFA Cup of Confederations]], which was held in Germany, but they could not go beyond the first round.

Their premier football league is the [[Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1]]. The main clubs are [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis]], [[Étoile Sportive du Sahel]], [[Club Africain]], [[Club Sportif Sfaxien]], [[US Monastir (football)|Union Sportive Monastirienne]], [[Stade Tunisien]], and [[CA Bizertin]].

The [[Tunisia men's national handball team]] has participated in several handball world championships. In 2005, Tunisia came fourth. The [[Tunisian Handball League|national league]] consists of about 12 teams, with [[Club Africain (handball)|Club Africain]] and [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis (handball)|Espérance]] dominating. The most famous Tunisian handball player is [[Wissem Hmam]]. In the [[2005 World Men's Handball Championship|2005 Handball Championship in Tunis]], Wissem Hmam was ranked as the top scorer of the tournament. The Tunisian national handball team won the African Cup ten times, being the team dominating this competition. The Tunisians won the 2018 African Cup in Gabon by defeating Egypt.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tunisiadaily.com/2010/02/20/tunisian-handball-team-wins-2010-african-cup-of-nations-tunisia-online-news.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205102833/http://www.tunisiadaily.com/2010/02/20/tunisian-handball-team-wins-2010-african-cup-of-nations-tunisia-online-news.html |archive-date=5 February 2013 |title=Tunisian handball team wins 2010 African Cup of Nations |publisher=Tunisia Daily |date=20 February 2010 |access-date=8 January 2013 }}</ref>

[[Tunisia's national basketball team]] has emerged as a top side in Africa. The team won the [[2011 Afrobasket]] and hosted Africa's top basketball event in 1965, 1987 and 2015. Tunisia was one of the continent's pioneers in basketball as it established one of Africa's first competitive leagues.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lee |last=Nxumalo |title=Basketball's next frontier is Africa |url=https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |access-date=11 January 2021 |work=New Frame |date=20 December 2020 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116062357/https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ }}</ref>

In [[boxing]], [[Victor Perez (Tunisian boxer)|Victor "Young" Perez]] was world champion in the flyweight weight class in 1931 and 1932.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gilbert E. Odd|title=Encyclopedia of Boxing|year=1989|publisher=Book Sales|isbn=978-1-55521-395-4|page=108}}</ref>

In the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], Tunisian [[Oussama Mellouli]] won a gold medal in 1500 meter freestyle.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lohn |first=John |title=Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWLKhp7HEkMC&pg=PA95|date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6775-8 |page=95}}</ref> In the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], he won a bronze medal in the 1500 meter freestyle and a gold medal in the [[Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre|men's marathon swim]] at a distance of 10 kilometers.

In 2012, Tunisia participated for the seventh time in its history in the [[Summer Paralympic Games]]. Their national team finished the competition with 19 medals; 9 golds, 5 silvers and 5 bronzes. Tunisia was classified 14th on the [[2012 Summer Paralympics medal table|Paralympics medal table]] and 5th in [[2012 Summer Paralympics medal table|Athletics]].

Throughout the years 2021 to 2023, tennis saw a spike of popularity in Tunisia and other Arabic countries as tennis player [[Ons Jabeur]] rapidly moved up the rankings reaching a career high ranking of number 3, and making 3 grand slam finals, including 2 at [[2023 Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]].