Rigert in Moscow 1975
History in Color: Soviet finest David Rigert of Shakty, Russia cleans weight at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow.
History in Color: Soviet finest David Rigert of Shakty, Russia cleans weight at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow.
History in Color: On the cover photo, legendary Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko is working out in his Dynamo gym in Riga, Latvia. Ivanchenko used a wide variety of support and strength exercises in...
History in Color Series: Fedor Bogdanovsky (1930-2014), Olympic champion (1956), the middleweight class lead of Team CCCP in the 1950s.
History in Color: Norbert Schemansky just became an Olympic champion in the 90kg class and set a new world record in clean-and-jerk (177.5kg). Now, he goes for another world record in his 4th attempt.
History in Color: Legendary super heavyweight champion Paul Anderson of Team USA Weightlifting is performing back squats in LA.
History in Color: Vladimir Stogov of Team USSR presses 105kg in the 56kg class. The lift takes place during the USA vs. USSR weightlifting match in May 1958 in Chicago, IL.
History in Color Series: Victor Sots (b. 1958) of Donetsk, Ukraine, USSR is completing the clean-and-jerk lift. Victor Sots was one of the strongest lifters in the 100kg class in the early 1980s. He won...
History in Color Series: Vladimir Ryzhenkov of the Dynamo Moscow begins his famous walk to the weight. This time he is about to start to clean-and-jerk 192.5kg in the light heavyweight class at the...
History in Color: 18-year old Yury Zakharevich competes at his first national championship. The original photo was taken during the 1981 USSR Championship in Novosibirsk, Russia. Zakharevich competed in the 90kg class and took...
One of the finest Team CCCP Hockey wingers, Alexander Bodunov died on May 11, 2017. He was 65. Alexander Bodunov won the World Championship with the Soviet team in 1973 and 1974. He was...