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History in Color: Bronze medalist Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, USA and new Olympic champion Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine are having a brief conversation backstage after the end of the super heavyweight medal ceremony...
History in Color: World records holder and national champion, Victor Andreev (1936-2000) was one of the lead Soviet super heavyweights of the 1960s. In 1967, he reached 547.5kg in total at the 136kg bodyweight...
Weightlifting History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting is training during the 1963 World Champuonship in Stockholm, Sweden. In the back (left to right), Vladimir Kaplunov (67.5kg, Khabarovsk, Russia), Eduard Brovko (90kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Alexey...
History in Color: August 12, 1978, Las Vegas, USA – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia sets a new world record in the snatch lift (178.5kg) in the 100kg weightclass at the invitational international tournament...
The 2017 IWF World Championships tournament is scheduled to be held in Anaheim, USA from November 27, 2017 to December 5, 2017. The Lift Up and our sub-publications continue the Go USA Weightlifting Marathon...
History in Color: Warsaw, Poland (October 4, 1959) – 24-year old Yury Vlasov sets a new world record in snatch (153kg) and wins his first World title with the 500kg total. Special thanks for...
History in color: This photo of Team USA 1960 was taken in the Olympic village in Rome prior to the opening ceremony. Top row (l-r): Bob Hoffman, John Pulskamp (4th place, 90kg), Jim Bradford...
History in Color: Legendary Soviet super heavyweight, Yakov Kutsenko carries the national flag at the opening ceremony of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. It was the first Olympics that the USSR ever...
History in Color series: Yury Vlasov lifts 202.5kg in the clean-and-jerk and sets the new world record at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. This was the grand finale of the weightlifting program of...
History in Color Series: October 21, 1964 (Tokyo, Japan) – In his last attempt at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Olympic champion Yury Vlasov goes for 217.5kg in the clean-and-jerk. It’s a world record at the...
Mladen Kuchev Sets a New Bulgarian Record
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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