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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...
Bronislav Ryzhik of Zaporozye, Ukraine was one of the best Soviet flyweights of the 1980s. He was a world record holder, won the USSR Championships in 1983, 1984, 1985, USSR Summer Spatakiad in 1983, USSR...
Cover photo features legendary Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev performing the clean-and-jerk lift in the heavy middleweight class at the 1954 World Championship in Vienna, Austria. By the end of this tournament, Vorobyev won...
One of the group photos of the national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The estimated time of the photo session is 1978 or 1979. Left to right: Front row: Vartan...
The cover photo from our History in Color Series features the snatch lift by 2x Olympic Champion Charles Vinci of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Charles Vinci (b. 1933) was one of the greatest bantamweight athletes...
World Wide Weightlifting: Rigert-o-Mania
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