- Nabil Kassel
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Nabil Kassel Personal information Full name نبيل كاسيل Nationality Algeria Born March 10, 1984 Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Weight 75 kilograms (170 lb) Sport Sport Boxing Rated at Middleweight Medal recordAll-Africa Games Bronze 2003 Abuja Middleweight Gold 2007 Algiers Middleweight 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 Andre Dirrell by RSC-2. He qualified for the Athens Games by winning the gold medal at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana. 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 Africa at the 2005 Boxing World Cup in Moscow, Russia. .
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 Darren Sutherland.
External links
All-Africa Boxing Champions in Men's Middleweight 1965 – 2007: up to 75 kg1965: ?? Noureddine (EGY) • 1973: Peter Dula (KEN) • 1978: Stephen Moi (KEN) • 1987: Patrick Lihanda (UGA) • 1991: Makoye Isangura (TAN) • 1995: Mohamed Bahari (ALG) • 1999 – 2003: Ramadan Yasser (EGY) • 2007: Nabil Kassel (ALG)
Categories:- 1984 births
- Living people
- Middleweight boxers
- Algerian boxers
- Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Algeria
- African boxing biography stubs
- Algerian sportspeople stubs
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