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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Short description|Egyptian boxer (born 1979)}}
{{no footnotes|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox boxer (amateur)|
| name=Mohamed Hikal
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| full_name = Mohamed Abdel Mawgoud Hikal
| nicknames =
| nationality = {{EGY}}
| weight class = [[Middleweight]] 
| club = 
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1979|01|10}}
| birth_place = [[Gharbiya -zefta]], [[dahtora-elassasy street]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| height         = {{convert|1.75|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|71|kg|lb}}
| medaltemplates=
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Amateur Boxing Championships|World Amateur Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships|2005 Mianyang]] | Middleweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[All-Africa Games]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1999 All-Africa Games|1999 Johannesburg]] | [[Boxing at the 1999 All-Africa Games|Light Middleweight]]}} 
{{MedalGold| [[2003 All-Africa Games|2003 Abuja]] | [[Boxing at the 2003 All-Africa Games|Welterweight]]}} 
{{MedalCompetition|[[Mediterranean Games]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[2005 Mediterranean Games|2005 Almeíra]] | [[Boxing at the 2005 Mediterranean Games|Middleweight]]}}
}}

'''Mohamed Hikal''' (born 10 January 1979) is an Egyptian [[Boxing|boxer]]. He won the bronze medal in the men's middleweight division (75&nbsp;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 [[Boxing at the 2003 All-Africa Games|2003 All-Africa Games]] in [[Abuja]], [[Nigeria]].

He also participated in the [[Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Summer Olympics]], where he was defeated in the second round of the [[Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight|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&nbsp;kg) division at the [[2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships]].{{fact|date=September 2023}}

At the [[Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Middleweight|2008 Olympics]], he lost his first bout to Britain's [[James DeGale]].  At the [[Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's middleweight|2012 Olympics]] also he lost in the first round, to [[Soltan Migitinov]] of Azerbaijan.{{fact|date=September 2023}}

==External links==
*{{SR/Olympics profile|hi/mohamed-hikal-1}}

{{Footer All-Africa Champions Welterweight}}
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[[Category:1979 births]]
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[[Category:Welterweight boxers]]
[[Category:Middleweight boxers]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic boxers for Egypt]]
[[Category:Egyptian male boxers]]
[[Category:AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Egypt]]
[[Category:Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games]]
[[Category:African Games gold medalists for Egypt]]
[[Category:African Games gold medalists in boxing]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 2003 All-Africa Games]]
[[Category:Boxers at the 1999 All-Africa Games]]
[[Category:21st-century Egyptian sportsmen]]
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