Legendary Hans Zdrazila is 80!
October 3, 2021 – Legend of Czech and world weightlifting, Olympic champion Hans Zdrazila turned 80! Hans Zdrazila (born in 1941) of Ostrava, Czech Republic was one of the best middleweight and light heavyweight...
October 3, 2021 – Legend of Czech and world weightlifting, Olympic champion Hans Zdrazila turned 80! Hans Zdrazila (born in 1941) of Ostrava, Czech Republic was one of the best middleweight and light heavyweight...
History in Color: September 27, 2021 – One of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s, 3x Olympian, Phil Grippaldi turned 75! Phil Grippaldi competed in the 90kg weight class...
History in Color: December 16, 1979, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Zaytsev, heavyweight of Zenith Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, wins the 1979 USSR Cup with a 407.5kg (170+237.5) total in the 110kg weight class....
History in Color: June 25, 1968, Leningrad, USSR –26-year old super heavyweight Serge Reding of Belgium completes a 182.5kg press lift in the 90kg+ class at the 1968 European Championships in Leningrad. At the...
History in Color: August 1971, Travemunde, Germany – German heavyweight Gunther Wu of SV Phoenix Kassel and Soviet flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lokomotiv Lvov are flexing muscles during the 1971 Baltic Cup tournament in...
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – 33-year old heavyweight Ivan Veselinov competes for Team Bulgaria in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 World and European Championships in Warsaw. By the...
History in Color: December 12, 1980, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR – Rookie junior Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia wins a national title in the snatch lift on his way to become a 1980 USSR Cup...
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History in Color: May 2, 1980, Beograd, Yugoslavia – 33-year old weightlifting super star, Olympic champion David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia snatches 181kg in the 4th attempt and sets a new world record in...
On the History in Color photo, weightlifting legend Chen Jingkai (1935-2010) of China is performing a snatch lift at the tournament in 1950s. Legendary Chen competed in the bantam and featherweight and set 9...