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History in Color: Darkov, Czechoslovakia, 1970 – Members of Team Czechoslovakia weightlifting are enjoying a free minute outdoors in the park after visiting a famous spa place in Darkov (left to right): Petr Pavlásek,...
History in Color: March 19, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – One of the most talented heavyweights of the early 1970s, Pavel Pervushin of Leningrad, Russia sets a new clean-and-jerk world record in the 110kg weight...
History in Color: May 11, 1951, Vienna, Austria – Soviet middleweight Vladimir Pushkarev of Moscow, Russia competes for the national Team USSR in the 75kg class in the Austria vs. Soviet Union weightlifting match...
History in Color: October 26, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old middleweight Zdravko Stoichkov of Team Bulgaria performs a snatch lift in the 75kg class at the 1983 World Championships in the Izmaylovo Weightlifting...
History in Color: May 18, 1980, Moscow, Russia – 26-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Team, Moscow wins a national title in the 110+kg class at the 1980 USSR Championships in...
History in Color March 3, 1988, Tallinn Estonia – 29-year old middleweight Roberto “Tony” Urrutia competes for Team USA in the 75kg weight class at the 1989 Friendship Cup in Tallinn. Roberto “Tony” Urrutia...
History in Color : November 15, 1986, Sofia, Bulgaria – 54-year head coach of Team Bulgaria, Ivan Abadzhiev is holding the IWF Award for the best team of the 1986 World Championships in Sofia....
The Lift Up: History in Color series features a photo of Yury Vlasov and his coach Suren Bogdasarov jogging in the morning in the 1960s. Suren Bogdasarov (1920-2009) was a prominent weightlifter of the 1940s...
History in Color : July 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 20-year old featherweight Amir Azizov of Lvov, Ukraine clean-and-jerks 160kg in the 60kg class at the 1983 USSR Spartakiade and 1983 USSR Championships in...
History in Color: October 3, 1947, Helsinki, Finland – Swedish heavyweight Gosta Magnusson prepares for lifting in the 82.5+kg class at the 1947 European Championships in Helsinki. It was the first European Championships after...
Group Hug of the Heavyweights (1961)
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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