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History in Color: August 13, 1991, Donetsk, Ukraine – 21-year old middleweight Aslambek Ediev of Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, USSR competes in the 75kg weight class at the 1991 USSR Spartakiade and 1991 USSR Championships...
History in Color: March 22, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Soviet super heavyweight candidate to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine sets 3 world records and wins...
History in Color: October 21, 1983 – Moscow, Russia – 16-year old Naim Suleymanov, rookie bantamweight of Bulgaria, sets a new world record (130kg) in the 56kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships...
On the History in Color cover photo, there are 9 Summer Olympics in various weight classes, 5 Olympic and 15 World titles, 5 Pan American Games golds and 50+ world records. There are three legendary...
History in Color: July 31, 1967, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Nikolay Khoroshaev of Rostov-on-Don, Russia performs a press lift in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade and...
History in Color: December 25, 1970, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR – Yury Yablonovsky. heavyweight of the Avangard Club (Lugansk), competes in the 110kg weight class at the 1970 USSR Cup in Kiev. It was the...
History in Color: May 5, 1979, Santiago, Cuba – 19-year old middleweight Julio Echenique of Cuba snatches 151kg and sets a new junior world record in the 75kg class in Santiago. Echenique had an...
January 10, 2021 – Happy Birthday to Anatoly Pisarenko! One of the most memorable super heavyweight champions of the 1980s turns 63 today. History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 24-year...
History in Color: October 18, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Legendary Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, MI, USA goes for a World record in snatch (173kg) in the 4th attempt during the 90+kg weight class tournament...
History in Color: July 25, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 33-year old World champion Arvid Andersson of Sweden performs a press lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. It...
Naim Suleymanov: Two World Records in Moscow (1983)
22 Jan, 2021
Olympic Champion Yury Zaytsev Turns 70
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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