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History in Color: March 19, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – One of the best super heavyweight of Team Czechoslovakia, Jan Nagy performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110+kg weight class at the 1973 Friendship Cup...
History in Color: October 9, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Legendary Dave Sheppard of New York City, NY, USA competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships in Vienna Due to the...
Just a different angle for our Rigert-o-Mania series… Don’t take it too serious 🙂 “I loved to add some showbiz stuff to the weightlifting,” said recently legendary David Rigert about his days on the...
History in Color: October 27, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Yurik Vardanyan of Team USSR and Leninakan, Armenia competes in a snatch lift program in the 82.5kg class at the 1983 World Championships...
History in Color: One of the greatest Olympic weightlifters of the 1930s, Rudolf Ismayr (1908-1998) of Germany would have turned 110 today. Rudolf Ismayr competed for Germany at two Summer Olympics. He won a...
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia wins the Olympic press program in the 90kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. David...
The History in Color series features a color version of the portrait of Olympic chamion Rafael Chimishkyan of Team USSR and Team Georgia. In my point of view, Rafael Chimishkyan is one of the...
History in Color: Vaclav Psenicka Sr. (1906-1961) was a truly legendary Czech Olympic weightlifter. He represented Czechoslovakia at three Summer Olympics – in1928, 1932 and 1936. Psenicka won silver Olympic medals in the 82.5+...
History in Color: September 13, 1949, Paris. France– Olympic champion John Davis of Team USA clean-and-jerks the original Apollon Wheels at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris. The original Apollon Axle was a set of railway...
History in Color: November 26, 1989, Moscow, Russia – Olympic vice champion Nail Mukhamedyarov of Uzbekistan competes in the middle heavyweight at the 1989 USSR Cup in Moscow. Nail Mukhamedyarov (b. 1962) was one...
Jan Nagy (Czechoslovakia): 1973 Friendship Cup
18 Oct, 2018
Rudolf Ismayr (Germany): 110th Birthday Anniversary
14 Oct, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
