Felix Naniev
November 28, 1971 – 21-year old Felix Naniev of the Northern Ossetia sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk lift at the 1971 USSR Championship (youth) in Cherepovets, Russia. Felix Naniev cleaned-and-jerked 194kg...
November 28, 1971 – 21-year old Felix Naniev of the Northern Ossetia sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk lift at the 1971 USSR Championship (youth) in Cherepovets, Russia. Felix Naniev cleaned-and-jerked 194kg...
History in Color: David Rigert, his coach Rudolph Plukfelder, both of Team CCCP, and Rolf Milser of West Germany are smiling for the group shot after the end of the 90kg competition at the...
History in Color: Moscow, USSR, April 15, 1967 – Yury Vlasov presses 199kg (world record) at the 9th Summer Spartakiade of Moscow. This was the last world record set by the legendary super heavyweight...
History in Color: Soviet featherweight Erkin Karimov competes at the 1968 USSR Cup in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. Erkin Karimov (b. 1942) was one of the athletes that belonged to the so called “unsung heroes”...
History in Color: Famous Finnish lightweight Jouni Grönman performs a snatch lift. Olympic weightlifting of Finland produced three medalists of the Summer Olympics. Jouni Grönman is one of these distinguished athletes. He won bronze...
History in Color: Leningrad, USSR, July 1979 – 30-year old Viktor Veretennikov wins the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in the 56kg weight class. Viktor Veretennikov (b. 1949) was a world class bantamweight from Volgograd, USSR....
History in Color: Moscow, July 31, 1983 – 22-year old Sergey Didyk of Vinnitsa, Ukraine is walking to the competition platform to break the new clean-and-jerk world record (261kg) in the 4th attempt in...
On the History in Color cover photo: Legendary Soviet middleweight, Olympic champion Alexander Kurynov (1934-1973) and Team CCCP head coach, 2x Olympic champion Arkady Vorobyev (1924-2012) are preparing for the competitions in the training...
History in Color: Two promising athletes that competed for Team Moscow in the 1970s. Yury Kozin (b. 1948, on the right) won the World Championship, the USSR championship and the USSR Spartakiade in 1971....
On the History in Color photo, legendary Yurik Vardanyan of Armenia is getting ready for his first clean-and-jerk attempt at the 1983 World Championship in the Izmailovo Arena, Moscow, USSR. 1983 European Championship Location: Moscow,...