Portrait Of A Champion
This is obviously a media staged shot of legendary Norbert Schemansky. Team USA just arrived to Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Schemansky is 28. He is not Mr. Weightlifting yet. It will come...
This is obviously a media staged shot of legendary Norbert Schemansky. Team USA just arrived to Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Schemansky is 28. He is not Mr. Weightlifting yet. It will come...
History in Color: May 12, 1958 – Team CCCP coach Alexander Bozhko assists Vladimir Stogov before his lift in the bantamweight competition of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago. John Terpack, Chuck...
At the 2017 European championship in Split, Croatia, Lasha Talakhadze, super heavyweight from Georgia, just set up a new world record in the snatch lift (217kg!!!!) Looks too easy and effortless for a world...
Our backyard squirrels conducted a little Olympics this afternoon. It’s hard to say what discipline they were competing in. Sometimes it looked like freestyle wrestling. Sometimes – sprint runs. Then jumps. Then tree climbing....
See, even the man of no words Buster Keaton himself said “Wow” on the new book by Susie. What book? How can I get more info? It’s all here.
Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus just finished his attempt at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. This was the first World title won by Shary. He finished first with the 357.5kg total (162.5+195). There...
The History in Color photo features Karlis Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competing at the 1971 USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia. Karlis Pumpurins (b. 1941) was one of the graduates of Michael Freifeld’s weightlifting club...
The cover photo of our History in Color series presents Yurik Sarkisyan (1922-2004) and the graduates if his training school in Krasnodar Russia: Left to Right: Sergey Arakelov, Yurik Sarkisyan, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Mukharby Kirzhinov...
The photo from the History in Color features legendary David Rigert training with the Team CCCP Weightlifting in the late 1970s. More… Save Save
History in Color: Vladimir Anikin (1946-2010) was one of the strongest Soviet bantamweight lifters of the 1970s. He was a vice champion of Europe (1974), USSR champion (1974), USSR Cup winner (1971, 1972), USSR...