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Born |
Garešnica, Croatia, Yugoslavia |
6 June 1971 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Ivan Ivančić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Darko Kralj (born 6 June 1971 in Garešnica) is a Croatian Paralympic athlete competing mainly in shot put events. He lost his left leg in a missile attack in 1991.
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, he won a gold medal in the men's F42 shot put event improving his world record with 14.43 metres. At the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships held in Christchurch, Kralj won a silver medal.
The King, a Croatian-language film about Kralj's life directed by Dejan Aćimović, was released in 2012.