Dean Lukin

Dean Lukin ( born May 26, 1960) is a former Australian Weightlifter

Life

Dean Lukin was born in Port Lincoln, SA / Australia. Up to his 15 years he operated mainly swimming, soccer, basketball and Australian football. Then intention of the coach of the football team, Leon Holm, at the school, the Dean Lukin visited at that time to build a weightlifting team and persuaded Dean to attend. It soon became his extraordinary potential for this sport and from that time he devoted himself to weightlifting. After school, Dean Lukin was tuna fishing, but could always arrange his job with the training. In 1984 he became Olympic champion in super heavyweight, but lacked in this competition due to the Olympic boycott almost all competitors from the Eastern Bloc. His victory he noted at the time by an impressive surge capacity of 240 kg securely, with whom he still overtook the leading after tearing with 12.5 kg lead Americans Mario Martinez. This output was 16 kg under the former world record of Vasily Alexeyev. After completing his weightlifting career, he took off through a targeted diet at 50 kg and is now working as an independent Tuna Fishing.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, SS = Super Heavyweight )

1972-1992: 110 lbs, 1996: 108 kg, from 2000: 105 kg 1972: Vasily Alexeyev | 1976: Vasily Alexeyev | 1980: Sultan Rakhmanov | 1984: Dean Lukin | 1988: Alexander Kurlovich | 1992: Alexander Kurlovich | 1996: Andrei Tschemerkin | 2000: Hossein Rezazadeh | 2004: Hossein Rezazadeh | 2008: Matthias Steiner | 2012: Behdad Salimikordasiabi

• Weightlifting (Australia)
• Olympic champion ( weightlifting )
• Olympian (Australia)
• Born in 1960
• Man