Featherweights Berger and Minaev in 1958
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL, USA – Soviet and U.S Olympic weightlifters are waiting for the opening call of the first match of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago....
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL, USA – Soviet and U.S Olympic weightlifters are waiting for the opening call of the first match of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago....
History in Color: August 20, 1956, Moscow, Russia – 23-year old featherweight of the Soviet Army team Evgeny Minaev sets up a new world record in the press lift at the 1st USSR Spartakiade...
History in Color @LiftUp Shakhty, Rostov-on-Don, USSR, January 1970 – Light heavyweight David Rigert and his coach Rudolf Plukfelder are enjoying a conversation after a training session in the Weightlifting Hall in their hometown...
History in Color @LiftUp Lille, France, October 1954 – Olympic champion Norb Schemansky of the United States clean-and-jerks the Apollon Wheels in Lille. The original Apollon Axle was a set of railway car wheels...
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History in Color: May 21, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – Legendary Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia sets a world record in the snatch in the 90kg class at the 1982 USSR Championships in...
March 15, 2023 – Happy Birthday to legendary Olympic weightlifting champion Robert Kabbas of Australia!
History in Color: October 19, 1946, Paris, France – In the end of the last day of the 1946 World Championships, the winners in the the heavyweight class (82.5+kg) received their medals at the...
History in Color: September 19, 1958, Stockholm, Sweden – 26-year old Bulgarian lightweight Ivan Abadzhiev performs his 1st attempt in a clean-and-jerk program in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1958 World Championships in...