Fedor Bogdanovsky
History in Color: March 1959, Moscow, USSR – Soviet middleweight lead of the 1950s, Olympic champion Fedor Bogdanovsky of Leningrad, Russia performs a split-style snatch in the 75kg class at the 1959 Prize of...
History in Color: March 1959, Moscow, USSR – Soviet middleweight lead of the 1950s, Olympic champion Fedor Bogdanovsky of Leningrad, Russia performs a split-style snatch in the 75kg class at the 1959 Prize of...
The cover of the History in Color series features Alexander Falameev, athlete, coach, educator, referee and one of the key figures in the development Olympic weightlifting in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia. Alexander Falameev (1924-2007)...
History in Color: March 19, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – The winners of the 1973 Friendship Cup in the 110+kg class (left to right): Gerd Bonk (East Germany, 2nd place), Serge Reding (Belgium, 1st place)...
History in Color: October 15, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 37-year old light heavyweight Rudolf Plukfelder of Team USSR competes in the press lifting in the 82.5kg class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo....
History in Color: August 28, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old light heavyweight Rumen Teodosiev of Burgas, Bulgaria competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1983 USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia. Rumen Teodosiev (b....
History in Color: October 10, 1955, Minich, Germany – Team USA Weightlifting gathered for a group shot after the end of the 1955 World Championships in Munich (left to right): Bob Hoffman (coach, manager),...
History in Color: March 19, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – One of the most talented heavyweights of the early 1970s, Pavel Pervushin of Leningrad, Russia wins the 110kg weight class at the 1973 Friendship Cup...