Nabil Kassel (born March 10, 1984) is an Algerian boxer best known to win the middleweight gold at the 2007 All-Africa Games. The family name is Kassel, Algerians generally write this first ( Kassel Nabil).

Career

Kassel participated at the Olympics 2004 at the age of 19 but lost to southpaw

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by RSC-2. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the

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. In the final he defeated Tunisia's Mohamed Sahraoui. He won the 2005 African Championships, and was a member of the team that competed for

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at the

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. . At the Arab Championships 2007 he lost to Mohammed Hikal. At the All-African Games he beat Hikal 17:15 in the first round and won. He later qualified for the Olympics. At the qualifier he lost again to veteran Hikal but beat Daniel Shishia for the third spot. At the Olympics he lost to

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1984 births Living people Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Algeria Algerian male boxers African Games gold medalists for Algeria African Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-boxing-bio-stub