Team USA in Egypt (1955)
History in Color: June 1955 – As part of a historical 1955 Team USA Weightlifting Tour to USSR, Egypt and Iran, American weightlifters competed in the weightlifting matches in Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt). The...
History in Color: June 1955 – As part of a historical 1955 Team USA Weightlifting Tour to USSR, Egypt and Iran, American weightlifters competed in the weightlifting matches in Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt). The...
History in Color: Norair Nurikyan (b. 1948) was a brilliant Bulgarian weightlifter. He competed in the bantamweight and featherweight classes and brought his country two gold medals from two Summer Olympics that he represented...
History in Color: April 28, 1973, Donetsk, Ukraine – Pavel Pervushin of the Army Club, Leningrad wins the 110kg weight class at the 1973 USSR Championships in Donetsk. Pavel Pervushin won the national title...
History in Color: Line-up of famous Soviet weightlifters of the first decades after the end of WWII (right to left): Nikolay Shatov, Yevgeny Lopatin, Roman Roman, Grigory Novak, X, Roman Moroz.
History in color features members of Team Bulgaria Weightlifting at the opening parade of the 1958 Moscow Cup in the USSR (left to right:) Ivan Abadzhiev, Lyuben Raychev The lightweight athlete on the left...
History in Color: March 19, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Igor Nikitin of the Army Club, Khabarovsk, Russia wins with the world record of 390kg total (172.5 + 217.5) in the 100kg class at the 1978...
History in Color: March 5, 1982, Frunze, Kirgizia – Alexander Pervy of Donetsk, Ukraine competes in the snatch program of the 82.5kg class at the 1982 Friendship Cup in Frunze. A little later in...
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia competes in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR Championships in Dnepropetrovsk. Yury Zakharevich won his first USSR...
History in Color: March 20, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia – Mohamed Traboulsi of Lebanon competes in the 75kg weight class at the 1974 Friendship Cup in Yerevan. That following morning, the “Soviet Sports Daily” reported...
History in Color: Sevdalin Marinov (b. 1968) became an Olympic champion when won the gold in the flyweight class at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Marinov competed for Team Bulgaria in the 1980s and became...