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History in Color: Braunau, West Germany, March 1971 – Soviet featherweight Nikolay Varava competes in the 60kg weightclass at the invitational Olympic weightlifting tournament in Braunau. Nikolay Varava (born in 1935) was one of...
History in Color: St. Brides, London, Great Britain, August 1960– Candidates to the British Olympic weightlifting team gathered for a press shot during one of the last training sessions before going to the 1960...
September 6, 2022 – Legendary Olympic champion and coach of Olympic champions, World Champion and coach of World champions, World records breaker and coach of world record breakers, Olympic weightlifting legend Rudolf Plyukfelder turned...
History in Color: August 30, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – Canadian heavyweight Douglas Hepburn is on his way to win the World title of a heavyweight champion with a total of 467.5kg (167.5+135+165) in the...
August 21, 2022 – 10x U.S. national and a Wold champion, legendary lightweight Joe Pitman (1924-2018) would been 98 today. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Champion! History in Color: October 14, 1950, Paris, France – U.S....
History in Color: September 22, 1961, Vienna, Austria – Soviet light heavyweight Rudolf Plyukfelder wins a gold medal in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1961 World Championships in Vienna. “In team contest, the...
History in Color: March 19, 1965, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Belgian super heavyweight Serge Reding competes in the 90+kg class at the 1965 Prize of Moscow International tournament in Moscow. It was the first...
Naim Suleymanogly used to be called by the World media as the “Pocket Hercules“. Adam Gnatov of Lvov, Ukraine was 20+ years older than Naim and competed in a lighter weight class. If I...
History in Color: Tokyo, Japan, October 1964 – U.S. finest Olympic weightlifters and coaches have arrived to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (left to right): Front row: Bill March (York, PA;...
History in Color: One of the best Olympic weightlifters and overall athletes of Italy, Sebastiano Mannironi performs a snatch lift in a slick split style in 1960. Sebastiano Mannironi (1930-2015) was a definite elite...
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1972-2022: Scoring Tournament Winning Goals For Canada
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Rafael Chimishkyan (1929-2022)
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1972-2022: Bobby Orr International
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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