Petro Korol
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| Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 January 1941 Lviv | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 July 2015(aged 74) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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Petro Kindratovych Korol(Ukrainian:Петро Король,2 January 1941 – 2 July 2015) was a Ukrainianweightlifterand Olympic champion who competed for theSoviet Union.[1]
Born inLviv,he won a gold medal at the1976 Summer OlympicsinMontreal.[2]Korol was a member of theDynamosports society.
References
[edit]- ^Пішов із життя славетний львівський важкоатлет Петро Король(in Ukrainian)
- ^"1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal, Canada - Weightlifting"Archived2008-09-17 at theWayback Machine-databaseOlympics.com(Retrieved on February 23, 2008)
External links
[edit]- Sadovnyk, O.Petro Korol: After my disqualification, the head of Dynamo regional council wanted to send me... for guard duty in labor camp."Vysokyi Zamok".January 5, 2012.
- Petro KorolatOlympedia
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- 1941 births
- 2015 deaths
- Ukrainian male weightlifters
- Soviet male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for the Soviet Union
- Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Sportspeople from Lviv
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Ukrainian sportspeople stubs