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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...
History in Color: Feodosia, USSR, 1979 – Group of candidates to the Team USSR weightlifting during training before the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (left to right): Sultan Rakhmanov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Alexander Voronin...
History in Color: August 28, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old light heavyweight Rumen Teodosiev of Burgas, Bulgaria competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1983 USSR Spatakiade and USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia....
October 12, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian athlete and coach Nikolay Komeshov (1920-2002) would have been celebrating his 100th Birthday today. History in Color: April 12, 1949, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR –Heavyweight champions of...
History in Color: Melbourne, Australia, November 1956 – Members of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team gathered for a memory group photo at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Clarence H. Johnson...
Karl Swoboda (Austria): Strong in the 1900s
November 30, 2022
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William “Bill” March (1937-2022)
October 11, 2022
May 2, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
May 12, 2015
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