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History in Color: October 17, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Soviet light heavyweight Vladimir Belyaev of Kiev, Ukraine, USSR presses 152.5kg in the 82.5kg weight class tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color: May 7, 1977, Roston-na-Donu, Russia, USSR – 20-year old middleweight Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 75kg class at the 1977 USSR Championships in Roston-na-Donu....
History in Color: Germany, 1933 – German middleweight Adolf Wagner of Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany performs a one-hand lift during an outdoor training session. In the 1930s, by many accounts, weightlifting of Germany was the...
History in Color: Feodosia, USSR, 1979 – Group of candidates to the Team USSR weightlifting during training before the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (left to right): Sultan Rakhmanov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Alexander Voronin...
History in Color: August 28, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old light heavyweight Rumen Teodosiev of Burgas, Bulgaria competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1983 USSR Spatakiade and USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia....
October 12, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian athlete and coach Nikolay Komeshov (1920-2002) would have been celebrating his 100th Birthday today. History in Color: April 12, 1949, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR –Heavyweight champions of...
History in Color: Melbourne, Australia, November 1956 – Members of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team gathered for a memory group photo at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Clarence H. Johnson...
Ocober 14, 2020 – One of the international weightlifting super stars of the pre World War II era, Rudolf Ismayr (1908-1998) would have been 112 years old today. History in Color: Berlin, Germany, 1936...
History in Color: December 14, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – Legendary Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia wins the 1974 USSR Cup in the 90kg weight class and gold medals of the...
This a collectible item for those who collects stamps and/or enjoys the history of Olympic weightlifting, The stamps from the Maldives celebrate the 100th Anniversary (1896-1996) and showcase famous Olympic champions of the 1980s....
One-Hand Lift by Adolf Wagner (Germany) in 1933
21 Oct, 2020
Are You Ready for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow?
18 Oct, 2020
Rumen Teodosiev (Bulgaria) in Moscow (1983)
17 Oct, 2020
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
