Mohamed El Assri

Mohamed El Assri

Personal information
Nationality	Morocco
Born	(1975-08-28) 28 August 1975
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Sport	Judo
Event(s)	90 kg
Medal record Men's judo Competitor for  Morocco Mediterranean Games Silver 2009 Pescara 90 kg African Championships Silver 2006 Port Louis 90 kg Bronze 2004 Tunis 90 kg Bronze 2005 Port Elizabeth 90 kg Bronze 2008 Agadir 90 kg Bronze 2011 Dakar 90 kg

Mohamed El Assri (Arabic: محمد العسري‎; born August 28, 1975) is a Moroccan judoka, who played for the middleweight category.^[1] He won a total of five medals (one silver and four bronze) for his division at the African Judo Championships (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2011).^[2] He also captured a silver medal in the 66 kg class at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy, losing out to Greece's Ilias Iliadis.^[3]

El Assri represented Morocco at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's middleweight class (90 kg). He lost his first preliminary match by a yuko and a deashi harai (advanced foot sweep) to Algeria's Amar Benikhlef.^[4] Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, El Assri offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Spain's David Alarza in the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, he finished only in ninth place, after losing out the second repechage bout to Switzerland's Sergei Aschwanden, who successfully scored a koka and a go-outside-contest-area technique (P16), at the end of the five-minute period.^[5]

References

External links

• Profile – Judo Inside
• NBC Olympics Profile