Daily Archive: June 6, 2018
History in Color: October 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old Bulgarian feather weight Stefan Topurov clean-and-jerks new world record (180kg) at the 1983 World Championships and becomes the first man in the world...
History in Color: Legendary super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko and the head coach of Team Ukraine Yakov Krinitsky. Krinitsky was a personal coach of such distinguished champions as Vladimir Belyaev and Valery Kuznichenko (seen in...
History in Color: Young athlete Boris Pavlov, future Olympian, world champion and record holder, and outstanding Soviet athlete and coach Khasan Yagly-Ogly of Kharkov, Ukraine.
History in Color: Young Georgian weightlifter Kakhi Kakhiashvili and his coach Ivan Grikurov during the training in Tskhinvali. In a years to come, both will become legends in Olympic weightlifting world. Kakhi Kakhiashvili won...
History in Color: The titans of Estonian Olympic weightlifting of late 1960s – mid 1970s at the training session in Tallinn, Estonia. Left to right: Jaan Talts, Karl Utsar and Toivo Kurg.