Petro Kindratovych Korol ( ua, Петро Король, 2 January 1941 – 2 July 2015) was a Ukrainian

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

and Olympic champion who competed for the

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.Пішов із життя славетний львівський важкоатлет Петро Король
Born in

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, he won a gold medal at the

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."1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal, Canada - Weightlifting"
- ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 23, 2008) Korol was a member of the

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sports society.

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* 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. * 1941 births 2015 deaths Ukrainian male weightlifters Soviet male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of 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 society athletes Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics {{Ukraine-weightlifting-bio-stub