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History in Color: August 1, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 22-year old Ota Zaremba of Team Czechoslovakia competes in the 100kg weight class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and 1979 USSR Championships in Leningrad....
History in Color: July 19, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR – 25-year old super heavyweight George Dyachenko of Lugansk (Voroshilovgrad), Ukraine, competes in the 102.5+kg class at the 1964 USSR Championships in Kiev. George Dyachenko...
History in Color: December 22, 1968, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR – World record holder and outstanding heavyweight contender, Alexander Dzhedzhelava of Tbilisi, Georgia, competes in the 110kg class at the 1968 USSR Team Championships...
February 4, 2021 – Happy 80th Birthday to Kaarlo Kangasniemi! Olympic champion Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Pori, Finland is a true legend of Olympic weightlifting. 3x Finnish Olympian, author of 17 world records, Kaarlo Kangasniemi...
History in Color: June 3, 1979, Debrecen, Hungary – 17-year old super heavyweight Antonio Krastev of Haskovo, Bulgaria sets a new junior world record in clean-and-jerk (212.5kg) in the 110+kg weight class at the...
History in Color: July 31, 1983, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 24 year-old heavyweight Vyacheslav Klokov snatches 190kg in the 3rd attempt while competing in the 110kg weight class at the 1983 USSR Spartakiade and...
History in Color: October 15, 1950, Paris, France –The light heavyweight champions receive their medals in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1950 World and European Championships on the Stage of the Palais de...
Back to never stopping conversations on pros and cons of Olympic press and the reasons why it was eliminated from Olympic weightlifting in 1972. The video also features Valery singing at the post competition...
History in Color: August 13, 1991, Donetsk, Ukraine – 21-year old middleweight Aslambek Ediev of Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, USSR competes in the 75kg weight class at the 1991 USSR Spartakiade and 1991 USSR Championships...
History in Color: March 22, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Soviet super heavyweight candidate to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine sets 3 world records and wins...
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Jaan Talts: Lifting in the Late Period of His Career
November 15, 2023
Boris Pavlov Goes for a World Record in Minsk
November 11, 2023
Sultan Rakhmanov: Training with Team CCCP
November 2, 2023
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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