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History in Color: May 18, 1968, Lugansk, Ukraine, USSR – Yury Yablonovsky. heavyweight of the Avangard Lugansk Club, sets a new USSR record in the clean-and-jerk (192.5kg) at the 1968 USSR Championship in Lugansk...
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… April 9, 1965, Budapest, Hungary – legendary Imre Foldi of Team Hungary celebrates a new featherweight world record in press at the 5th Danube Cup in...
Note: December 8, 2018 – Olympic vice champion Nail Mukhamedyarov turns 56. Congrats and best wishes to the Champ! History in Color: July 6, 1989, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan – Olympic vice champion Nail Mukhamedyarov of...
History in Color: Havana, Cuba, 1984 –10x Cuban national champion, middle heavyweight of Team Cuba, Ciro Ibanez competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1984 Manuel Suares tournament in Havana. Ciro Ibanez (born...
History in Color: August 12, 1991, Donetsk, Ukraine – 22-year old bamtamweight Albert Nasibulin of the Dynamo Kharkov, Ukraine team competes in the 56kg weight class at the 1991 USSR Championships in Donetsk. A...
History in Color: March 16, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Ricardo Villalobo, lightweight of Team Cuba, performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow. Mario Ricardo Villalobo (b....
History in Color: March 16, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Flyweight Francisco Casamayor of Team Cuba competes in the 52kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow. The author of the original black-and-white photo...
History in Color: August 1, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Guy Carlton of Decatur, IL, USA competes in the 100kg class at the 1979 USSR Spatrakiade and USSR Championships in Leningrad. Guy Carlton (1954-2001) was...
History in Color: March13, 1971, Rostov, Russia – Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia sets two world records in the 90+kg class at the 1971 Friendship Cup in Rostov-on-Don. At the tournament,...
History in Color: One of the most memorable super heavyweights in the history of Olympic weightlifting, Anatoly Pisarenko of Team USSR competes in the early 1980. Pisarenko had all of it in him –...
Yury Yablonovsky: Record of the Union (1968)
11 Dec, 2018
Imre Foldi: World Record in Budapest (1965)
10 Dec, 2018
Ciro Ibanez (Cuba): Going Heavy in Havana, 1984
7 Dec, 2018
Albert Nasibulin (USSR, Ukraine): Donetsk, 1991
7 Dec, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
