Super Heavyweights Can Jump
Don’t argue with this. Just look at the History in Color cover photo. This is the Olympic champion in the super heavyweight Dean Lukin of Team Australia!
Don’t argue with this. Just look at the History in Color cover photo. This is the Olympic champion in the super heavyweight Dean Lukin of Team Australia!
History in Color: September 1963, Stockholm, Sweden – Bill March (left) and Norbert Schemansky of Team USA Weightlifting are enjoying the view of Swedish capital from their hotel room during the 1963 World Championships...
History in Color: Gottfried Schödl, President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), is videotaping the competitions at the 1983 Wold Championships at the Izmaylovo Sports Palace in Moscow, Russia. Gottfried Schödl of Austria ran...
The History in Color series features Geza Toth of Hungary, one of the best Olympic weightlifters in the world in the 1960s. Geza Toth (1932-2011) was a part of so-called “Magnificent Seven” group of...
History in Color: One of the most impressive and exciting to watch athletes in the 1970s, Valentin Khristov of Bulgaria performs a snatch in Podolsk, Russia (1971).
History in Color: March 17, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Sergey Pevzner of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (178kg) in the lightweight at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow.
3:1? It ain’t some soccer game scoreboard. Just a counter for the athletes’ country representation on the History in Color cover photo (left to right): Yevgeny Popov (Bulgaria, 110+kg), Georgi Todorov (Bulgaria, 60kg), Aslanbek...
History in Color: Vladimir Kuznetsov, middleweight of Spartak Krasnodar is about to begin a clean-and-jerk lift at the 1989 USSR Championships in Frunze, Kirgizia. Vladimir Kuznetsov (b. 1963) was one of the brightest Soviet...
History in Color: February 26, 1972, Riga, Latvia – Valery Yakubovsky of Moscow Dynamo sets a new Olympic press world record (206.5kg) in the 110kg weight class at the National Dynamo Championship in Riga....
History in Color: The Olympians of Team CCCP are getting ready for the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Rome (1960). The national flag will be carried by legendary Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov....