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Baczako dead

BUDAPEST: Hungarian weightlifter Peter Baczako, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, died on Tuesday. He was 56.

Baczako died in Budapest of cancer, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said.

He had also been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and spent his last few months in a wheelchair. — AP

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