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Dean "Dinko" Lukin had the following podium finishes at major championships: 1st in the 1984 Olympics Unlimited class (412.5 kg); 1st in the 1984 World Championships Unlimited class (412.5 kg); 1st in the 1982 Commonwealth Games Unlimited class; 1st in the 1986 Commonwealth Games Unlimited class. Lukin was a tuna fisherman and after his.


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I will leave it to you to tell [archer] Simon Fairweather and [weightlifter] Dean Lukin he's no longer a hero. Coates then ended with this beauty: "Now he is telling us eighth is good enough, or.


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Dean Lukin was born on 26 May, 1960 in Sydney, Australia, is an Australian weightlifter. Discover Dean Lukin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates.. claiming that his waist was now the size that his upper thighs were during the 1984 Olympic Games. 1985.


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Dinko "Dean" Lukin, OAM is a retired weightlifter from Australia. Lukin won the gold medal in the Super Heavyweight category at the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles. He carried the Australian flag during the closing ceremony of the 1984 games, and remains Australia's only Olympic gold medalist for weightlifting. He also saw success in the Commonwealth Games, winning gold medals in the.


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July 23, 2011 - 10:00PM. IN 1984, Dean Lukin lifted 240kg to clinch the Olympic super-heavyweight gold medal in Los Angeles. Yesterday, he faced a heavier burden - watching as his father's coffin.


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Two lifts later Dean Lukin, 24, had gold - the first ever for Australia in weightlifting - and his parents Dinko and Ann Lukin, from Port Lincoln in South Australia, were being escorted past now.


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THE son of Olympic gold-medal weightlifter Dean Lukin has started legal action seeking a share of his grandfather Dinko Lukin's $18 million estate. Rural Editor Nigel Austin 2 min read


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Transcript. NICK GRIMM: Today is a significant anniversary for Australian weightlifting. On this day 30 years ago, South Australian tuna fisherman Dean Lukin won gold in the Superheavyweight.


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By Duncan Mackay. Sunday, 27 December 2009. December 27 - Dean Lukin (pictured) is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his famous father and qualify for Australia's team the 2010 Commonwealth.


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Weightlifting gold medallist Dean Lukin was a tuna fisherman whose family helped to pioneer the local industry.. different places. Port Lincoln in the 50s and Port Lincoln now, they are just.


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Dinko ("Dean") Lukin, OAM[1] (born 26 May 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a retired weightlifter from Australia. Lukin won the gold medal in the Super He.


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Dinko "Dean" Lukin, a tuna fisherman from Port Lincoln, South Australia, became the only weightlifting gold medallist in Australian Olympic history when he won the super-heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He also won gold medals at the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and Edinburgh respectively.


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Dean Lukin, Dean Lukin Junior and Greg Norman at one of their initial meetings in Port Lincoln.. (EIS) from 1984, that was part of Porter Bay Marina's (now Lincoln Cove Marina's) planning.


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Dinko "Dean" Lukin, OAM (born 26 May 1960) is a retired weightlifter from Australia.. claiming that his waist was now the size that his upper thighs were during the 1984 Olympic Games. Lukin was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. References.


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The next day Lukin was asked if he would compete in the Australia Games the following January, "Your kidding, that's slap-bang in the middle of tuna season." In Sydney in 1985, Lukin created another Commonwealth and Australian record when he lifted 240.5kg in the clean-and-jerk and beat Martinez for the second time. His total lift was 400kg.