Achievements At the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Faicel won a gold medal in +100 kg category. Faicel competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the +100 kg event, he defeated Yerzhan Shynkeyev before being eliminated by the 2011 world champion Teddy Riner. Faicel was qualified to the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio. He competed in the category +100kg, and defeated respectively Roy Meyer and Islam El Shehaby before being defeated by Andreas Tölzer in the final match of the pool B. In Repechage, Faicel defeated Ryu Shichinohe and qualified to a new match against Adam Okruashvili for the third place in +100 kg category. He finished the competition in the third place with Andreas Tölzer, and by this result he reached the best achievement in his career.