Career
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. 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.
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.
