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November 30, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian coach and top national weightlifting executive administrator Yakov Krinitsky has died at 90. Yakov Krinitsky (1930-2020) of Kiev, Ukraine was a Chair of the Coaches’ Board...
History in Color: December 15, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – 33-year old super heavyweight Nikolay Kozintsev of Donetsk, Ukraine competes in the 110+kg class at the 1974 USSR Cup in Zaporozhye. Kozintsev won a...
November 28, 2020 – British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died at 85. Before he became a world famous entertainer, he was also a champion...
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia performs a clean-and-jerk lift using “power jerk” style technique in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR...
History in Color: Shakhty, Roston-on-Don region, Russia, USSR (early 1970s) – Rising stars of Soviet Olympic weightlifting Nikolay Kolesnikov (left) and Sergey Pevzner are training outdoors in a famous weightlifting school of Shakhty. Nikolay...
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Canadian heavyweights Douglas Hepburn and Dave Baillie celebrate their top medal awards after winning in the 90+kg class at the 1954 British Empire and...
History in Color: July 9, 1979, Sofia, Bulgaria – 20-year old lightweight Yanko Rusev, member of the national weightlifting team of Bulgaria, clean-and-jerks a world record of 185.5kg and wins a gold medal in...
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – U.S. super heavyweight James Bradford of Washington, DC, USA wins the press competition with a 170kg lift in the 90+kg class at the 1959 World...
November 7, 2020: Happy 80th Birthday to Cuban heavyweight champion and Olympian Ernesto Varona! History in Color: Tokyo, Japan, October 1964 – Cuban Olympian Ernesto Varona visits an outdoor training camp of Team USSR...
History in Color: December 24, 1946, Gorky, Russia, USSR –Weightlifting Team Moscow wins the 1st place at the 1946 USSR Team Championships in Gorky (left to right): Team Captain Grigory Novak (Soviet Wings, Moscow,...
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Club 500: Nikolay Kozintsev (Ukraine, USSR)
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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