Daily Archive: September 24, 2017
History in Color: Team England Weightlifting before going to the 1962 Empire Games in Perth Australia. Left to right: George Manners (82.5kg, silver medal), Carlton Goring (67.5kg, gold medal), David Prowse, Louis Martin (90kg,...
The cover photo of our History in Color series depicts Olympic press lift by brilliant Soviet flyweight Vladislav Krishchishin of Lvov, Ukraine. Vladislav Krishchishin (1946-2001) was a World champion (1969), European Champion (1969, 1970)...
Yury Chimrov (b. 1956, shown on the cover photo) was one of the young and promising Soviet heavyweights of the late 1970’s and early 1980s. He competed for the Dynamo club of Donetsk, Ukraine...