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History in Color: March 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov greets the strongest heavyweights after the end of the 90+kg weight class competition at the 1961 Prize of Moscow invitational tournament...
History in Color: August 31, 1972, Munich, Germany – Best middleweights receive their awards at the medal ceremony in the 75kg weight class at the 1972 Summer Olympics (left to right): Mohamed Traboulsi (Lebanon,...
History in Color: April 22, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR – Middleweight legend, Olympic champion, 5x World champion, 7x European champion, 9x USSR champion, Viktor Kurentsov competes for the Soviet Army Club of Khabarovsk, Russia...
History in Color : June 1955 –American Olympic weightlifting team is about to take off on a plane to Russia for the USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet to be held in Moscow and...
History in Color: October 8, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Olympic champion Rafael Chimishkyan of Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR wins both World and European titles in the 60kg weight class at the 1954 World and European...
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Best middle heavyweights receive their awards at the medal ceremony in the 90kg weight class and salute to Montreal, the city that hosted the 1976...
History in Color: April 25, 1978, Kiev, Ukraine – 20-year old junior weightlifter Anatoly Pisarenko competes for the Dynamo Club at the 1978 USSR Championships held at the Sports Palace in his hometown. In...
January 7, 2020 – Legendary Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) would have been 78 today. Happy Birthday to the Legend!
History in Color March 3, 1988, Tallinn, Estonia – 21-year old featherweight candidate to the national team USSR, Valery Leonov competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1988 Friendship Cup in Tallinn. For...
History in Color: September 22, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – Olympic weightlifting legend, Olympic champion, 4x Olympian and 4x Olympic medalist, Norbert “Norb” Schemansky of Detroit, Michigan, USA competes in the 90+kg weight class at...
Group Hug of the Heavyweights (1961)
22 Jan, 2020
Rafael Chimishkyan: Vienna, 1954
14 Jan, 2020
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
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