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History in Color: July 20, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Light heavyweight of the Dynamo Riga weightlifting club, Gennady Ivanchenko competes for Team Latvia at the 1971 USSR Spartaliade at the CSKA Weightlifting Arena in...

The cover photo of the History in Color series features Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko at the 1972 Championship of the USSR. Ivanchenko was one of the strongest athletes in this class in the...

History in Color: On the cover photo, legendary Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko is working out in his Dynamo gym in Riga, Latvia. Ivanchenko used a wide variety of support and strength exercises in...

Gennady Ivanchenko and his coach Mikhail Freifeld are about to start the training session. Freifeld was the head coach of the Dynamo Riga sports club and Ivanchenko was perhaps the most successful among his...

There were definitely many candidates for a “poster boy” of Olympic weightlifting through its history. Gennady Ivanchenko, by all means, is in the top of this group. Well-built and strong. Confident, slick and reliable....

History in Color: Paris, France, February 1971 – Soviet heavyweights Vasily Alexeev and Jaan Talts are being caught on camera while having a friendly armwrestling match in front of the Eiffel Tower during a...