Lee James (USA): Happy 65th Birthday!
October 31, 2018 – One of the brightest stars of the U.S. and world weightlifting of the 1970s, Lee James celebrates his 65th Birthday! Happy Birthday, Champ!
October 31, 2018 – One of the brightest stars of the U.S. and world weightlifting of the 1970s, Lee James celebrates his 65th Birthday! Happy Birthday, Champ!
History in Color: December 18, 1969, Lvov, Ukraine – Coach of Dinamo (Riga) Michael Freifeld is preparing 23-year light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko, also of Riga, Latvia, before attempting to clean-and-jerk a world record in...
October 31, 2018 – World record setter, vice champion of the World, champion of Europe, USSR, winner of the USSR Cup, Sergey Pevzner turns 70! Happy Birthday, Champ!
“Did we win?.. We won!!!” Bernie C. celebrates the BIG WIN of the Red Sox.
History in Color: March 22, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – 19-year old middleweight Alexander Pervy of Donetsk, Ukraine wins the 1st place with a 325kg total in the 75kg class at the 1979 Friendship Cup...
Happy 71st Birthday to one of all-time best Soviet middle heavyweights Sergey Poltoratsky! Best wishes to the world records holder, champion of the World, Europe and USSR Sergey Poltoratsky!
“Where in the World is Ashgabat, Clarence?” “No idea. Somewhere in Russia, Bob?” What?!. History purists are getting frustrated now. And they are absolutely right. It is highly unlikely that this conversation between Bob...
History in Color: October 26, 2018 – Today true legend of Czech and World Olympic weightlifting, Vaclav Psenicka Sr. (1906-1961) would have been celebrating his 112th birthday. Vaclav Psenicka Sr. represented Czechoslovakia at three...
History in Color Series: Victor Sots (b. 1958) of Donetsk, Ukraine, USSR is training in the 1980s. Victor Sots was one of the strongest lifters in the 100kg class in the early 1980s. He won...
History in Color: April 22, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – Legendary Soviet middleweight Viktor Kurentsov competes for the Soviet Army Club of Khabarovsk, Russia in the 75kg class at the 1970 USSR Championships in Vilnius....