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“I loved to add some showbiz stuff to the weightlifting,” said recently legendary David Rigert about his days on the competitive platform. For a starter, David Rigert is an Olympic champion, 6x World Champion,...
The History in Color cover photo depicts Yurik Vardanyan competing at the tournament of World Record Makers in Las Vegas in August 1978. Style wise, it is a very rare case when Yurik did...
Olympic champion Alfred Neuland (1895-1966) of Valga, Estonia was definitely one of the landmark athletes in the history of modern Olympic weighting. Neuland was a pioneer of the snatcn/clean squat style technique and was...
Helmut Losch (1947-2005) of Stralsund, Germany was the first Olympic Weightlifter from East Germany to earn the title of World Champion. He won gold medal in the clean-and-jerk competition at the 1971 World Champiomship...
Just a casual conversation between world famous weightlifting personalities in the late 1970s. Left to Right: Leonid Zhabotinsky (2x Olympic champion), David Rigert (Olympic champion), Sultan Rakhmanov (Olympic champion) and Igor Kudyukov (Head coach, 1975-1980) of...
“If not today, then tomorrow you will be able to lift it up…” Those were the words of my coach. I was a young and emotional lifter. I was a fighter on the competition...
“She is always hungry” chirped father finch to me. “Yes, I am” confirmed baby finch next to him. From our Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
World Wide Weightlifting: Rigert-o-Mania
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Happy Expressions In the Backyard
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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