Helmut Losch
Helmut Losch (1947-2005) of Stralsund, Germany was the first Olympic Weightlifter from East Germany to earn the title of World Champion. He won gold medal in the clean-and-jerk competition at the 1971 World Champiomship...
Helmut Losch (1947-2005) of Stralsund, Germany was the first Olympic Weightlifter from East Germany to earn the title of World Champion. He won gold medal in the clean-and-jerk competition at the 1971 World Champiomship...
Just a casual conversation between world famous weightlifting personalities in the late 1970s. Left to Right: Leonid Zhabotinsky (2x Olympic champion), David Rigert (Olympic champion), Sultan Rakhmanov (Olympic champion) and Igor Kudyukov (Head coach, 1975-1980) of...
“If not today, then tomorrow you will be able to lift it up…” Those were the words of my coach. I was a young and emotional lifter. I was a fighter on the competition...
“She is always hungry” chirped father finch to me. “Yes, I am” confirmed baby finch next to him. From our Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
Jockey David D. Amiss was back at the Suffolk Downs for two weekends in July and August with the live racing events. He had a great season here last year and was the 2016...
Bronislav Ryzhik of Zaporozye, Ukraine was one of the best Soviet flyweights of the 1980s. He was a world record holder, won the USSR Championships in 1983, 1984, 1985, USSR Summer Spatakiad in 1983, USSR...
Cover photo features legendary Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev performing the clean-and-jerk lift in the heavy middleweight class at the 1954 World Championship in Vienna, Austria. By the end of this tournament, Vorobyev won...
One of the group photos of the national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The estimated time of the photo session is 1978. Left to right: Front row: Vartan Militosyan,...