Monthly Archive: December 2017
History in Color: Vasily Alexeev and his coach Alexander Chuzhin during the training in the Trud weightlifting hall in 1970 in Moscow, Russia. Vasily Alexeev and the coaches remains one of the somehow controversial...
History in Color: August 12, 1978, Las Vegas, USA – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia sets a new world record in the snatch lift (178.5kg) in the 100kg weightclass at the invitational international tournament...
16-year old schoolboy from Bulgaria, Naim Suleymanov competes at the international tournament in the early 1983. In a few years, the media will nickname him as Pocket Hercules. Naim Suleymanoglu (1967-2017) was the first...
The History in Color cover photo depicts legendary Belgian super heavyweight Serge Reding competing at the international tournaments in Moscow, USSR. Serge Reding needs no special introduction for anyone who followed the history of...
May 13, 1980, Moscow – Alexander Senshin of Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine clean-and-jerks 142.5 kg at the 1980 USSR Championship held at the Izmaylovo Arena in Moscow. It’s a new world record in the 52kg weight...
In memory of legendary athletes that we lost in 2017… In Memoriam 2017 Naim SULEYMANOGLU, Turkey 1967 – 2017 Marek GOLAB, Poland 1940 – 2017 Velichko CHOLAKOV, Bulgaria 1982 – 2017 Falahati Mohammad NEJAD, Iran 1976 –...
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Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh, hey
Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh, hey