Daily Archive: August 10, 2018
The History in Color presents one of the classics of weightlifting coach-and-athlete duos – Zygmunt Smalcerz and Augustyn Dziedzic of Poland. Augustyn Dziedzic (1928-2008) was one of all-time best personal trainers in the history...
History in Color: Olympic champion Yury Vlasov performs Olympic weightlifting in front of thousands of spectators at the soccer stadium in Moscow in 1960s. Based on the writing on the banner, the event was...
On August 10, 2018 Russian weightlifting celebrates its 133rd birthday. The long story of Olympic weightlifting began with the gentlemen on the cover photo when Dr. V.F. Krayevsky founded his club in St. Petersburg,...