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'''Dinko''' "'''Dean'''" '''Lukin''', [[Order of Australia|OAM]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/887421|title=LUKIN, Dinko (Dean)|publisher=It's an Honour|accessdate=8 January 2012|archive-date=12 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312204817/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/887421|url-status=dead}}</ref> (born 26 May 1960) is an Australian retired [[Olympic weightlifting|weightlifter]]. 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 medallist for weightlifting. He also saw success in the [[Commonwealth Games]], winning gold medals in the super heavyweight division of the [[1982 Commonwealth Games|1982 Brisbane games]] and the [[1986 Commonwealth Games|1986 Edinburgh games]].

Lukin was born in [[Sydney]], but his family moved to the [[South Australia]]n town of [[Port Lincoln]] when he was five years old. Lukin was a [[tuna]] fisherman who shot to fame as a weightlifter in the 1980s, then returned to run the family fishing business. In 2000, a portrait of him was hung in the [[Archibald Prize]] called ''Strongest Man of the Games'', painted by [[David Bromley (artist)|David Bromley]].

In a press conference following his 1984 Los Angeles Olympics gold medal, Lukin reportedly told assembled journalists that instead of focusing upon his victory, they should assemble for the disabled games and show those competitors as much time and respect as they had shown him. This was because their achievements were "far greater than mine".

In a bid to get healthier during the late 1980s, Lukin went on a diet and lost a lot of the weight that made him one of the top Super Heavyweight weightlifters in the world, 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/dean-lukin/|title=Dean Lukin|publisher=Sport Australia Hall of Fame|accessdate=25 September 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Lift Up}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com profile|dinko-lukin}}
* {{AOC}}
* {{CGA|dean-lukin}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080904232657/http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?contentid=946 Lukin behind $40m Port Lincoln plan]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091227041538/http://saweightlifting.org.au/content/view/21/43 An in depth look at Dean Lukin - South Australian Weightlifting Association]
*http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/fishing-wharf-in-100m-port-plan/story-e6frea6u-1226213180915

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