Mohamed Hikal Explained

Mohamed Hikal
Full Name:Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud Hikal
Birth Date:1979 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Gharbiya -zefta, dahtora-elassasy street
Height:1.750NaN0
Weight:71kg (157lb)

Mohamed Hikal (born January 10, 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.

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.