Mohamed Hikal (born January 10, 1979) is an Egyptian

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. 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

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. He also participated in the

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for his native

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n country. There, Hikal was defeated in the second round of the welterweight (69 kg) division by

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'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. At the 2008 Olympics, he lost his first bout to

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. At the

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he lost in the first round to Soltan Migitinov.

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