Baszanowski
The History in Color series features legendary Polish lightweight Waldemar Baszanowski competing at his last Summer Olympics. By all means, Waldemar Baszanowski was a true legend of Olympic weightlifting. He was a 2x Olympic...
Category: Sports History
Makinen (Suomi)
History in color: 4x Olympian, European champion Eino Makinen (1926-2014) of Tampere, Finland competes in the 90+kg weight class in the weightlifting match between Finland, Estonia and Leningrad in 1961. Eino “Eikka” Makinen represented...
Kanygin (CCCP)
History in Color: World champion Vladimir Kanygin, middleweight from Blagoveshchensk, Russia competes in the snatch lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow. 1971 Championship of the USSR Location: Moscow Russia Weight Class: Middleweight [75 kg]More Info On the...
Legendary V.Kurentsov: 52 years ago in East Berlin
History in Color: Legendary middleweight, Olympic champion, 5x World champion, 7x European champion, 9x CCCP champion, Viktor Kurentsov of Khabarovsk, Russia competes at the 1966 World championship in East Berlin. World Championships from 1891...
World Record by Yury Kozin
History in Color: April 14, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – Yury Kozin of the Dynamo Moscow, Russia presses 208kg and sets a world record in the 110kg class at the 1972 USSR Championship in Tallinn....
Bob Hoffman and Joe Di Pietro. Quiz On History.
History in Color: American weightlifting greats Bob Hoffman and Joe Di Pietro are having fun and enjoying a nice weather day on the ship making their way to the championship in Europe in the...
Strong For Greece In 1972
History in Color: September 2, 1972, Minich, Germany – Light heavyweight Christos Iakovou of Team Greece takes the 5th place with the 490kg in total (170 + 137.5+ 182.5) at the 1972 Summer Olympics...
Rigert-o-Mania: Snatch Blast From the Past
As a part of our Rigert-o-Mania, the snatch lift by me back in the college days in Moscow. Long time ago – just a blast from the past in color.
Boris Selitsky: Quiz
History in Color: Olympic champion, World and European champion, USSR National and USSR Spartakiade champion, winner of the USSR Cup and world records holder, Boris Selitsky of Leningrad, Russia performs a clean-and-jerk lift. QUIZ...
Rafael Belenkov: World Record in Press
History in Color: April 11, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – Rafael Belenkov of Minsk, Belarus sets a new world record in press (128kg) in the bantamweight class at the 1972 USSR Championship in Tallinn, Estonia....
