Legendary Yury Vlasov Turns 85
December 5, 2020 – Olympic champion, 4x World champion, 6x European Champion, 5x national champion, author of 31 world records, legendary Yury Vlasov turns 85. His phenomenon goes well beyond all the titles and...
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Yakov Krinitsky Died at 90
November 30, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian coach and top national weightlifting executive administrator Yakov Krinitsky has died in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was 90. Yakov Krinitsky (1930-2020) of Kiev, Ukraine was a...
Club 500: Nikolay Kozintsev (Ukraine, USSR)
History in Color: December 15, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – 33-year old super heavyweight Nikolay Kozintsev of Donetsk, Ukraine competes in the 110+kg class at the 1974 USSR Cup in Zaporozhye. Kozintsev won a...
David Prowse (1935-2020)
November 28, 2020 – British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died at 85. Before he became a world famous entertainer, he was also a champion...
Yury Zakharevich Sets 6 World Records per Night (Dnepropetrovsk, 1982)
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia performs a clean-and-jerk lift using “power jerk” style technique in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR...
Rising Stars of Olympic Weightlifting Train Outdoors in Shakhty, Russia
History in Color: Shakhty, Roston-on-Don region, Russia, USSR (early 1970s) – Rising stars of Soviet Olympic weightlifting Nikolay Kolesnikov (left) and Sergey Pevzner are training outdoors in a famous weightlifting school of Shakhty. Nikolay...
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