Mohamed Hikal
Egyptian boxer (born 1979)
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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 to 2012.
Egypt| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud Hikal |
| Nationality | Egypt |
| Born | 10 January 1979 Gharbiya -zefta, dahtora-elassasy street |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Boxing |
| Middleweight | |
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
External links
- Mohamed Hikal at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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