Zdravko Stoichkov (Bulgaria)
History in Color: October 26, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old middleweight Zdravko Stoichkov of Team Bulgaria performs a snatch lift in the 75kg class at the 1983 World Championships in the Izmaylovo Weightlifting...
History in Color: October 26, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old middleweight Zdravko Stoichkov of Team Bulgaria performs a snatch lift in the 75kg class at the 1983 World Championships in the Izmaylovo Weightlifting...
History in Color: May 18, 1980, Moscow, Russia – 26-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Team, Moscow wins a national title in the 110+kg class at the 1980 USSR Championships in...
History in Color March 3, 1988, Tallinn Estonia – 29-year old middleweight Roberto “Tony” Urrutia competes for Team USA in the 75kg weight class at the 1989 Friendship Cup in Tallinn. Roberto “Tony” Urrutia...
History in Color : November 15, 1986, Sofia, Bulgaria – 54-year head coach of Team Bulgaria, Ivan Abadzhiev is holding the IWF Award for the best team of the 1986 World Championships in Sofia....
The Lift Up: History in Color series features a photo of Yury Vlasov and his coach Suren Bogdasarov jogging in the morning in the 1960s. Suren Bogdasarov (1920-2009) was a prominent weightlifter of the 1940s...
History in Color : July 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old featherweight Amir Azizov of Lvov, Ukraine clean-and-jerks 160kg in the 60kg class at the 1983 USSR Spartakiade and 1983 USSR Championships in...
History in Color: October 3, 1947, Helsinki, Finland – Swedish heavyweight Gosta Magnusson prepares for lifting in the 82.5+kg class at the 1947 European Championships in Helsinki. It was the first European Championships after...
History in Color: July 27, 1967, Moscow, Russia – 24-year old Soviet Army bantamweight Gennady Chetin of Perm, Russia is competing in the 56kg class at the 1967 USSR Spatakiade and 1967 USSR Championships...
History in Color: August 15, 1991, Donetsk, Ukraine – USSR national medalists in the 100kg class at the 1991 USSR Spartakiade and 1991 USSR Championships in Donetsk (left to right): Nail Mukhamediarov (Uzbekistan, silver...
History in Color: August 11, 1948, London, Great Britain – Olympic medal winners in the 82.5 class at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London (left to right): Harold Sakata (USA, silver medal, 380kg), Stan...