Abdel Kader Ben Kamel

Abdel Kader Ben Kamel was born in 1937 in Marrakesh, Morocco.^[1]

Kamel would represent Morocco at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. There, he would be one of the first athletes to compete for the nation at a Summer Games as the nation would make its debut at these Summer Games.^[2] At the 1960 Summer Games, he competed in the men's light-heavyweight category for lifters that weighed 82.5 kilograms or less. The competition would be held on 9 September 1960; Kamel competed against 23 other athletes that participated in the event.^[3]

The first lift of the event would be the military press. There, he lifted 105 kilograms and placed 22nd in the lift.^[4] The next lift would be the snatch, where he would lift 102.5 kilograms and placed 21st in the lift.^[5] The last lift of the event would be the clean and jerk, where he would place equal 20th alongside Jesús Rodríguez of Spain with a lift of 130 kilograms.^[6] With a total amount of 337.5 kilograms of weight lifted added together, Kamel would place 20th out of the 21 athletes that completed the event. ^[3]