Sokol Bishanaku (born 2 June 1971) is a former

Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...

n weightlifter who competed at the

1992 Summer Olympic Games The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...

, the 1991

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in Greece, the 1993 Mediterranean Games in France, the 1997 Mediterranean Games in Italy, the 1999 World Weightlifting Championship in Athens, and many other international competitions. He was also a National Representative of Albania at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. He set 102 national weightlifting records and was National Champion from 1993–1999. He won numerous medals at international competition. He has remained involved in sport as a trainer and professor since 2005 and in 2017 was declared the best trainer in Albania. He is now a national coach.

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Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Albania Living people 1971 births Albanian male weightlifters 20th-century Albanian sportspeople {{Albania-weightlifting-bio-stub