Cholokyan
The cover photo from our History In Color series this time features Artavaz Cholokyan, the star of Georgian weightlifting of the 1960s.
Artavaz Cholokyan was a flyweight Olympic weightlifter. He competed for the Dynamo club of Sukhumi. Cholokyan was a world record holder in the press lift and vice champion of the 1963 USSR Championship and of the 1963 Spartakiad of the Soviet Union.
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