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History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY –Olympic champions, 26-year old middleweight Peter George (left) and 25-year old light heavyweight Tommy Kono of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team are demonstrating Olympic lifts in front...
History in Color: September 15, 1970, Columbus, OH, USA – Legendary Polish lightweight, 35-year old Waldemar Baszanowski performs a split style clean in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1970 World Championships in Columbus....
History in Color: Robert Allart (born in 1913) was the finest Belgian Olympic weightlifter of the first decade after the end of the World War 2. He competed in the heavyweight class and represented...
Legendary U.S. weightlifter Robert “Bob” Bednarski (1944-2004), world champion and author of 12 world records, would have turned 75 today. Happy Birthday, Champion! We remember you.
History in Color: September 12, 1986, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old sub heavyweight Igor Sadykov of Fergana, Uzbekistan competes in the 100kg weight class at the 1986 USSR Spatakiade held at the Izmaylovo Weightlifting...
History in Color: September 16, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – 23-year old bantamweight Yoshinobu Miyake of Japan wins his first world title with a world record in total (352.5kg) in the 56kg weight class at...
History in Color: October 24, 1975, London, Great Britain – Winners of the invitational Strong Men Weightlifting International Tournament in London: legendary super heavyweights Aslanbek Yenaldiev (USSR, 1st place), Khristo Plachkov (Bulgaria, 2nd place)...
History in Color: August 1, 1967, Moscow, Russia – Soviet middle heavyweight, European vice champion Anatoly Kalenichenko of the Dynamo Club (Volgograd, Russia) sets a new world record in snatch (151.5kg) in the 90kg...
History in Color: June 22, 1971, Sofia, Bulgaria – 30-year old lightweight Peter Korol of Lvov, Ukraine sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (173.5kg) at the 1971 European Championships in Sofia. Five years...
History in Color: August 2, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Candidate to the 1980 Olympic Team USSR, sub heavyweigh Vladimir Kononov of the Trud Club of Novokuybyshevsk, Russia competed in the snatch program in the...
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