Two Champs of Tokyo 1964
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....
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....
The History in Color series: May 15, 1981, Novosibirsk, Russia – Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan, Armenia competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1981 USSR Championship in Novosibirsk. Vardanyan managed to win the...
The group photo of Team CCCP Weightlifting in the training camp at the Black Sea continues our History in Color series. Front row (l-r): V. Stepanov (82.5kg, Riga), V. Bushuev (67.5kg, Gorky), A. Kurynov (75kg,...
Olympic champion of Mexico City (1968), Boris Selitsky of Leningrad is preparing to clean-and-jerk 185 kg at the 1968 USSR Championship in Lugansk, Ukraine. Save
Arnold Golubovich (1945-2000) was an outstanging light heavyweight of the late 1960s – early 1970s. He was a word records holder and a bronze medalist of the USSR championship (1969). Golubovich was a milestone athlete in...
June 12, 1978 – Olympic champion of Montreal (1976), Nikolay Kolesnikov of Shakhty, Russia competes at the 1978 European Championship in Havirov, Czechoslovakia. Kolesnikov won the tournament with the 290kg total (125+165) in the...
On the History in Color cover photo, Rafael Chimishkyan is training in his gym in Tbilisi, Georgia. His coach Pavel Gumashyan is overseeing the lift. Both are preparing for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne....
Legendary Soviet lifter and coach, Arkady Vorobyev cleans the weight using split style at the 1955 World championship in Munich. Split style was dominant among weightlifters back in those days. It might look odd...
This is obviously a media staged shot of legendary Norbert Schemansky. Team USA just arrived to Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Schemansky is 28. He is not Mr. Weightlifting yet. It will come...
History in Color: May 12, 1958 – Team CCCP coach Alexander Bozhko assists Vladimir Stogov before his lift in the bantamweight competition of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago. John Terpack, Chuck...