Petro Korol

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Petro Korol
Medal record

Men's weightlifting
Competitor for the Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Montreal	-67.5 kg

Petro Kindratovych Korol (Ukrainian: Петро Король, born 2 January 1941) is a former Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.

Born in Lviv, he won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[1] Korol was a member of the Dynamo sports society.

References

↑ "1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal, Canada - Weightlifting" - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 23, 2008)

External links

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.

v t e Olympic Champions in Weightlifting Lightweight

1920–1992: 60–67.5 kg, 1996: 64–70 kg 2000–2012: 62–69 kg

1920: Alfred Neuland 1924: Edmond Decottignies 1928: Hans Haas+Kurt Helbig 1932: René Duverger 1936: Robert Fein+Anwar Mesbah 1948: Ibrahim Shams 1952: Tommy Kono 1956: Ihor Rybak 1960: Viktor Bushuev 1964+1968: Waldemar Baszanowski 1972: Mukharby Kirzhinov 1976: Petro Korol 1980: Yanko Rusev 1984: Yao Jingyuan 1988: Joachim Kunz 1992: Israel Militosyan 1996: Zhan Xugang 2000: Galabin Boevski 2004: Zhang Guozheng 2008: Liao Hui 2012: Lin Qingfeng

Persondata
Name	Korol, Petro
Alternative names
Short description	Weightlifter
Date of birth	2 January 1941
Place of birth	Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Date of death
Place of death

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