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History in Color: March 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Middle heavyweight athletes ate being introduced before the competition in the 90kg weight class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow invitational tournament in Moscow (left...
History in Color: Zdravko Stoichkov (born in 1964) of Targovishte, Bulgaria was one of the most promising young Bulgarian athletes of the 1980s. He competed in the 75kg and 82.5kg classes. On the national...
History in Color: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1968 – First year students of weightlifting class of Ivan Abadzhiev are perfoming a clean-and-jerk lift in training at the Youth Sports School in Sofia: Left to right: Boby...
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 : 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....
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – 20-year old middle heavyweight Atanas Shopov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria performs a snatch lift on his way to a silver Olympic medal in the 90kg class...
History in Color: Olympic vice champion Stefan Dimitrov of Dobrich, Bulgaria competes for his country in the 60kg class at one of the international tournaments in the late 1970s. Stefan Dimitrov (1957-2011) was a...
History in Color: July 22, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 20-year old middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria clean-and-jerks 190kg and becomes an Olympic champion with a 335kg total in the 75kg weight class at...
The History in Color features a color version of the photo of legendary Bulgarian Olympic weightlifter Stefan Topurov. At 19, featherweight Stefan Topurov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria launched a new era in Olympic weightlifting –...
History in Color: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1980 – 19-year old super heavyweight Antonio Krastev of Haskovo, Bulgaria trains with the national Team Bulgaria and its famous coach Ivan Abadzhiev in 1980.
Nikolay Saxonov: 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki)
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Asen Zlatev (Bulgaria) Turns 60!
25 May, 2020
Top 6 Super Heavyweights in 1967
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1980 USSR Championships: Super Heavyweight Medalists
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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