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April 22, 2022 – Legendary weightlifter, champion of 1980 Summer Olympics, World champion and records holder, Ota Zaremba of Czech Republic celebrates his 65th Birthday today. Happy Birthday, Champ! Ota Zaremba is one of...
History in Color: October 26, 1951, Milan, Italy – legendary Olympic weightlifter Ibrahim Shams of Alexandria, Egypt performs a split style clean in the lightweight class (67.5kg) at the 1951 World Championships in Milan....
History in Color: December 20, 1960, Ufa, Bashkiria, USSR –32 year old light heavyweight Rudolf Plukfelder of the Trud club (Shakhty) snatches 141.5kg and sets a new world record in the 82.5kg class at...
History in Color: April 6, 1976, Berlin, East Germany – Jan Lostowski, 25-year old lightweight of Team Poland, snatches 139kg in his 4th attempt and sets a new world record in the 67.5kg weight...
History in Color: September 22, 1975, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old junior heavyweight Valentin Khristov of Bulgaria snatches 180kg and sets a world record in the 110kg weight class at the 1975 World Championships...
History in Color: December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine, USSR – 27-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik club (Moscow) receives a gold medal after winning the 1st place in the 110+kg class...
History in Color: Paris, France, October 1950 – Members of the U.S. Weightlifting Team are training in the Paris gym during the 1950 World Championships in Paris. After the end of World War II,...
History in Color: July 23, 1958, Cardiff, Wales –Light heavyweight Gerry Gratton of Montreal, Quebec, Canada competes in the 82.5kg weight class of the weightlifting tournament at the VI British Empire and Commonwealth Games...
The guy on the cover photo doesn’t seem to be the prettiest among the birds. Definitely, it’s not a winner of beauty contest among the birds or anything of that type. The Latin name...
March 20, 2023
Yurik Vardanyan: A Starry Night in Dnepropetrovsk (1982)
March 20, 2023
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Happy Birthday to Robert Kabbas of Australia!
March 16, 2023
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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