Mohamed Hikal
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Medal record | |||
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Competitor for Egypt | |||
Men's Boxing | |||
World Amateur Championships | |||
Bronze | 2005 Mianyang | Middleweight | |
All-Africa Games | |||
Gold | 1999 Johannesburg | Light Middleweight | |
Gold | 2003 Abuja | Welterweight |
Mohamed Hikal (born January 10, 1979) is a boxer from Egypt best known to win Bronze at middleweight at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
[edit] Career
Hikal won the gold medal at welterweight 2003, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native North African country. There he was beaten in the second round of the welterweight (69 kg) division by Russia's eventual bronze medalist Oleg Saitov.
He 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.