Mohamed Hikal

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{{Short description|Egyptian boxer (born 1979)}}

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| full_name = Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud Hikal

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| nationality = {{EGY}}

| weight class = Middleweight

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1979|01|10}}

| birth_place = Gharbiya -zefta, dahtora-elassasy street

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| height = {{convert|1.75|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|71|kg|lb}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Amateur Championships}}

{{MedalBronze| 2005 Mianyang | Middleweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|All-Africa Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1999 Johannesburg | Light Middleweight}}

{{MedalGold| 2003 Abuja | Welterweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}}

{{MedalGold| 2005 Almeíra | Middleweight}}

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Mohamed Hikal (born 10 January 1979) is an Egyptian boxer. He won the bronze medal in the men's middleweight division (75 kg) at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He competed in four Olympic Games from 2000-2012.

Career

Hikal won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.

He also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated in the second round of the welterweight (69 kg) division by Russia's eventual bronze medalist Oleg Saitov.

Hikal subsequently moved up to middleweight, and later managed to upset defending world champion Gennady Golovkin and win the bronze medal in the middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.{{fact|date=September 2023}}

At the 2008 Olympics, he lost his first bout to Britain's James DeGale. At the 2012 Olympics also he lost in the first round, to Soltan Migitinov of Azerbaijan.{{fact|date=September 2023}}