Mohamed El Assri ( ar, محمد العسري; born August 28, 1975) is a Moroccan

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, who played for the middleweight category. 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). He also captured a silver medal in the 66 kg class at the

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, losing out to Greece's

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. El Assri represented

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at the

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, 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

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. Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, El Assri offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Spain's

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in the repechage rounds. He finished only in ninth place, after losing out the second repechage bout to Switzerland's

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, who successfully scored a koka and a go-outside-contest-area technique (P16), at the end of the five-minute period.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1975 births Living people Moroccan male judoka Olympic judoka for Morocco Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Morocco Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in judo 20th-century Moroccan people 21st-century Moroccan people {{Morocco-judo-bio-stub