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Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Lviv | 2 January 1941||||||||||||||
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 Ukrainian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.[1]
Born in Lviv, he won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.[2] Korol was a member of the Dynamo sports society.