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History in Color: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, November 1956 – Members of the Canadian Olympic weightlifting team are sharing the training hall with Paul Anderson, legendary U.S. superheavyweght, also known as Miracle of Nature, during...
November 2, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet Armenian athlete and coach Akop Faradzhan (1930-1996) would have turned 90 today. Happy Birthday and Rest in Peace to a true Maestro of Olympic weightlifting! The History in...
October 31, 2020 – Happy Birthday to Lee James (USA)! He turned 67 today. History in Color: Mexico City, Mexico, 1975 – Light heavyweight Lee James of Team USA prepares for his attempt in...
History in Color: November 24, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – 28-year old lightweight Vern Barberis of Australia makes a 105kg press in front of the home crowd at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria during the...
October 28, 2020 – Alexander Pervy would have been celebrating his 60th birthday today. He died a few months before his 25th birthday. So, this year 2020 marks the 35th Anniversary of his death...
Sad news came from the Perm’s region in Russia – one of the most talented and promising Soviet weightlifters in the late 1970s, a member of the national Team USSR, World and USSR champion,...
History in Color: March 21, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – Daniel Nunez, 21-year old bantamweight of Cuba, sets a new world record in snatch (121kg) in the 56kg weight class at the 1979 Friendship...
History in Color: October 17, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Soviet light heavyweight Vladimir Belyaev of Kiev, Ukraine, USSR presses 152.5kg in the 82.5kg weight class tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color: May 7, 1977, Roston-na-Donu, Russia, USSR – 20-year old middleweight Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 75kg class at the 1977 USSR Championships in Roston-na-Donu....
History in Color: Germany, 1933 – German middleweight Adolf Wagner of Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany performs a one-hand lift during an outdoor training session. In the 1930s, by many accounts, weightlifting of Germany was the...
Paul Anderson: Circus Act in Leningrad (1955)
September 8, 2024
John Grimek at York Barbell Club
May 25, 2024
World Record by Vartan Militosyan (Armenia, USSR)
May 19, 2024
May 2, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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