World Record by Victor Korzh (1956)
History in Color: April 11, 1956, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 22-year featherweight Victor Korzh of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in press (113.5kg) in the 60kg weight class at the international tournament...
History in Color: April 11, 1956, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 22-year featherweight Victor Korzh of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in press (113.5kg) in the 60kg weight class at the international tournament...
History in Color: March 21, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 35-year old light heavyweight Rudolf Plukfelder of the Trud club (Shakhty) lifts 175kg in the clean-and-jerk program and wins the 1st place in the...
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History in Color: June 23, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – Legendary lightweight champion, 35-year old Waldemar Baszanowski of Poland performs a split style clean in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1970 European Championships in...
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Presenting more episodes of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series within...
Legends of Olympic weightlifting, Anatoly Pisarenko (Ukraine) and Zygmunt Smalcerz (Poland) back in the 1980s and today at the 2023 Weightlifting Masters World Championships in Wieliczka, Poland
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Presenting more episodes of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series within...
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Here goes another episode of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series...
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Here goes another episode of our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” series...
In the hospitals, doctors always wash their hands before surgeries. In Olympic weightlifting, athletes always chalk their hands before lifting weights at the competitions. Here goes our retro “weightlifting chalkathon” within History in Color...