Rigertomania In Action
On the cover: Heated pep-talk in our weightlifting gym before the Championship of Moscow in the early 1980s. My coach Vladimir Glyadkovsky (on the left) gives some strategic input on upcoming competitions. I am...
On the cover: Heated pep-talk in our weightlifting gym before the Championship of Moscow in the early 1980s. My coach Vladimir Glyadkovsky (on the left) gives some strategic input on upcoming competitions. I am...
Members of Team Czechoslovakia Weightlifting gathered for a group shot before going to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Left to right: Top row: Emil Brzoska (Head coach), Ota Zaremba (gold, 100kg), Bohuslav Braum...
Members of Team CCCP Weightlifting perform an anthropometry session in the training camp in the late 1970s. Left to right: Sergey Arakelov (100kg, Krasnodar, Russia), Sultan Rakhnamov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Valery Shary (90kg, Minsk,...
David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia performs the snatch lift at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Rigert won the gold medal in the 90kg weight class and became an Olympic champion. The Olympic...
Alexander Pervy (1960-1985) was one of my personal favorite athletes in Olympic weightlifting. Very slick technician and strong lifter, he definitely was a clutch lifter in the competitions. The more pressure was mounting in...
Gerd Bonk of East Germany performs a clean-and-jerk lift (cj). The cj lift was the strongest lift of Bonk. It was Gerd Bonk who bypassed the 250kg record mark in the clean-and-jerk. Special thanks...
Legendary U.S. weightlifters Norbert Schemansky and Tommy Kono are captured on camera during the international tournament in Basel, Switzerland in 1953. Special thanks for the original b/w photo sent to us by Rolf Eberhard...
History in Color: 7x USSR Champion Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) and 11x USSR Champion Nikolay Shatov (1909-1992). They were the great pioneers of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting in the 1930s and 1940s. The original b/w...
One of all-time greatest Olympic weightlifters in the history of this sport, Mohammad Nassiri of Iran performs a snatch lift. Mohammad Nassiri competed at 4 Summer Olympics (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976). He won gold...
History in Color: Eduard Brovko (1936-1998) competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1963 World Championship in Stockholm. World class weightlifter Eduard Brovko became an outstanding coach after ending his career as an...