Happy 25th Birthday to Lasha Talakhadze (Georgia)!
Happy Birthday to Lasha Talakhadze. He is 25 today! Almost according to Shota Rustaveli’s “The Knight in the Tiger’s Skin” – Get this 270kg tiger! It’s yours!
Happy Birthday to Lasha Talakhadze. He is 25 today! Almost according to Shota Rustaveli’s “The Knight in the Tiger’s Skin” – Get this 270kg tiger! It’s yours!
10/2/2018 – Legend of Swedish Weightlifting turns 80 today! Happy Birthday to Ingvar Asp!
History in Color: June 11, 1972, Detroit, MI, USA – Middle heavyweight Rick Hobrook of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1972 AAU Senior National Championships and Final Olympic Trials in...
History in Color: Left to right: Vaclav Psenicka, Sr. (82.5+kg, silver), Vaclav Becvar (82.5kg+, 11), Josef Brumlik (82.5kg, 12), Josef Hantych (75kg, 10), Antonin Balda (67.5kg, 13), Jehka, Frantisek Simunek (60kg, 18)
History in Color: Front row: John Yamauchi (56kg), Dane Hussey (60kg), Dan Cantore (67.5), Jim Napier (75kg), Phil Grippaldi (90kg) Back row: Frank Bates (Coach), Murray Levin (Manager), Lee James (82.5), Frank Capsouras (90kg),...
History in Color: One of the best Czech weightlifters of the 1980s, Anton Baraniak competes for Team Czechoslovakia at the 1981 Panonnia Cup. Anton Baraniak (b. 1951) competed for Czechoslovakia at two Summer Olympics...
History in Color: The first Polish World Champion, Marian Zielinski is preparing for the lift. Marian Zielinski (1929-2005) was one of the best weightlifters in the world in the 1960s. He was the first...
History in Color: Weightlifters of the Dynamo Riga club at the training camp in Jekabpils, Latvia in 1971-1972 (left to right): E. Abrashov, Alexander Dynnikov, Juris Klavins, Karlis Pumpurins, Ansis Ziemanis The Dynamo Riga...
History in Color: June 16, 1978, Havirov, Czechoslovakia – 21-year old sub heavyweight Sergey Arakelov of Krasnodar, Russia makes his debut appearance on elite level for Team USSR in the 100kg at the 1978...
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach Igor Kudyukov, August 19, 1977) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: Sultan Rakhmanov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Aslanbek Yenaldiev (110+kg, Ordzhonikidze, Russsia), Akop...