Daily Archive: September 27, 2018
History in Color: March 17, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – Soviet middleweight Valentin Mikhailov of Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine competes in the clean-and-jerk in the 75kg class at the 1973 Friendship Cup in Tashkent. Valentin Mikhailov (b....
History in Color: April 15, 1967, Moscow, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov competes in his last tournament at the 9th Summer Spartakiade of Moscow. At the tournament Vlasov pressed 199kg. This was the last...
History in Color: June 11, 1965, Sofia, Bulgaria – A year after his triumph in the middleweight in Tokyo, Olympic champion Hans Zdrazila of Team Czechoslovakia steps up to the light heavyweight and competes...