Monthly Archive: January 2018
We’ve got tons of snow yesterday. Perhaps, it’s time to practice split style clean like it is being done by well-known Finnish weightlifter Jaakko Kailajarvi, 4x Olympian and world records holder, shown on our...
History in color: One of the best super heavyweights of all times, 2x Olympic champion Alexander Kurlovich of Grodno, Belarus, competes for Team CCCP in the 110+kg class at the 1983 World Championship in...
The joyful holiday characters on the porch seem to cover all their optimistic smiles and cheers in the snow…
The first snow storm in 2018 just started in Boston. Neighbors are concerned about the outcome but our Santa on the porch is still smiling. Very optimistic fella!
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 29-year old Gudmundur Sigurdsson of Iceland competes in the 90kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He won the 8th place with 332.5kg...
Every story has its beginning. The official date of the beginning of Russian weightlifting is considered August 10, 1885. It was the day when the first weightlifting club of athletes was founded by Dr....
History in Color: July 4, 1975, Vilnius, Lithuania – Olympic champion Kanybek Osmonaliev competes in the flyweight class for the Burevestnik Club of Frunze, Kirgizia at the 1975 USSR championship in Vilnius, Lithuania. The...
A few months prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics, Team CCCP Weightlifting sends its cheerful greetings from a sunny Feodosia training camp in 1980. Left to right: Front row: V.Veretennikov (56kg), D.Rigert (90kg), O.Karayanidy...
History in Color: Legendary Olympic weightlifter Ibrahim Shams of Alexandria, Egypt competes in the lightweight class at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Ibrahim Shams (1914-2001) competed at two Summer Olympics – in 1936...
On the new History in Color cover, Vasily Alexeev is performing a snatch lift in the 1970s. Vasily Alexeev was the king of the clean-and-jerk lifts. His competition best jerk of 256kg was set...