Olympic Champion Yury Zaytsev Turns 70
January 17, 2021 – Happy 70th Birthday to Olympic Champion Yury Zaytsev!
January 17, 2021 – Happy 70th Birthday to Olympic Champion Yury Zaytsev!
History in Color: July 31, 1967, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Nikolay Khoroshaev of Rostov-on-Don, Russia performs a press lift in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade and...
History in Color: December 25, 1970, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR – Yury Yablonovsky. heavyweight of the Avangard Club (Lugansk), competes in the 110kg weight class at the 1970 USSR Cup in Kiev. It was the...
History in Color: Moscow, Russia, USSR, October 1983 – Gogi Gurgenyan of Fergana, Uzbekistan is working on making his photo reports from the 1983 World and European Championships at the Izmaylovo Weightlifting Hall in...
History in Color: May 5, 1979, Santiago, Cuba – 19-year old middleweight Julio Echenique of Cuba snatches 151kg and sets a new junior world record in the 75kg class in Santiago. Echenique had an...
January 12, 2021 – A true legend of Olympic weightlifting, 2x Olympic Champion, 6x World Champion, author of many remarkable world records, U.S. heavyweight John Davis (1921-1984) would have been celebrating his 100th birthday...
January 10, 2021 – Happy Birthday to Anatoly Pisarenko! One of the most memorable super heavyweight champions of the 1980s turns 63 today. History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 24-year...
History in Color: October 18, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Legendary Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, MI, USA goes for a World record in snatch (173kg) in the 4th attempt during the 90+kg weight class tournament...
History in Color: July 25, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 33-year old World champion Arvid Andersson of Sweden performs a press lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. It...
History in Color: July 27, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 26-year old flyweight Kanybek Osmonaliev of Frunze, Kirgizia performs a snatch lift in the 52kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and USSR Championships...