Valery Shary: Going For the World Record
History in Color: Soviet light heavyweight Valery Shary goes for the world record in the clean-and-jerk at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. He just secured a gold medal in the 82.5kg class with...
History in Color: Soviet light heavyweight Valery Shary goes for the world record in the clean-and-jerk at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. He just secured a gold medal in the 82.5kg class with...
Sad news came from Hungary. One of the best Olympic weightlifters of all times, Imre Foldi died on April 23, 2017. He was 78 years old. Imre Foldi was a true legend of the...
History in Color series: Team CCCP Weightlifting is training hard for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Powerful Soviet light heavyweight Trofim Lomakin seems to be upset by something. Behind him is his...
From the History in Color series: Alexey Vakhonin of Kiselevsk, Russia competes in the bantamweight class at the 1963 Cup of Moscow. In a year, Vakhonin will win the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in...
History in Color: March 22, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – Lightweight Vyacheslav Andreev of Kokchetav, Kazakhstan, is setting a new clean-and-jerk world record (181kg) in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1979 Friendship Cup...
The cover photo from our History in Color Series, features a portrait of Nikolay Saxonov (1923-2011), champion of the World, Europe, USSR and author of seven world records. Nilolay Saxonov is a true legend...
History in Color Series: European champion and world records author Vasily Stepanov (1927-2011) Vasily Stepanov was one of the top Soviet Olympic weightlifters of the secong half of the 1950s. He won the silver...
Participants of the 1961 World Championship in Vienna are taking break between training and competitions: Left to right: Alexander Kurynov (Kazan, 75kg), Rudolf Plyukfelder (Shakhty, 82.5kg), Yury Vlasov (Moscow, 90+kg), Vasily Stepanov (Riga, 90kg)...
The History in Color series: September 18, 1962 – Legendary Tommy Kono of the Team USA competes in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1962 World Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Kono is getting ready to lift 150kg in his...
History in Color series: Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozye, Ukraine and Alexey Vakhonin of Shakhty, Russia are enjoying a rest day in the Olympic village in Tokyo in 1964. Both became Olympic champions in 1964....