Valery Yakubovsky: World Record in Riga
History in Color: February 26, 1972, Riga, Latvia – Valery Yakubovsky of Moscow Dynamo sets a new Olympic press world record (206.5kg) in the 110kg weight class at the National Dynamo Championship in Riga....
History in Color: February 26, 1972, Riga, Latvia – Valery Yakubovsky of Moscow Dynamo sets a new Olympic press world record (206.5kg) in the 110kg weight class at the National Dynamo Championship in Riga....
History in Color: The Olympians of Team CCCP are getting ready for the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Rome (1960). The national flag will be carried by legendary Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov....
History in Color: Gennady Ivanchenko (b. 1946) of the Dinamo Club in Riga, Latvia World and European Champion, USSR Champion, author of many world records and the first light heavyweight in the world that...
History in Color: Soviet weightlifting stars of the first post World War II decades (right to left): Yury Duganov, Rafael Chimiskyan, Grigory Novak, Alesha Chilingarov, N/A All of them definitely deserve their own chapter...
History in Color: One of the best featherweights in the world in the 1970s, graduate of the famous weightlifting school in Shakhty, Russia, Nikolay Kolesnikov competes at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. A...
History in Color: April 7, 1976, Berlin, East Germany – 21-year old middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk at 190.5kg at the 1976 European Championships in East...
History in Color: Olympic champion Leif Jenssen of Norway competes at the1969 Nordic Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. His results at the tournament were 140+132,5+160. Leif Jenssen (b. 1948) had a fantastic win in the...
History in Color: May 1972 – Ivan Abadzhiev has assembled the his Team Bulgaria Weightlifting for the 1972 European Championships in Romania (left to right): Front row: Ivan Abadzhiev (Head Coach), Norair Nurikian (60kg,...
History in Color: September 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Atanas Kirov of Burgas, Bulgaria competes in the 56kg class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. At the Worlds in 1975, Atanas Kirov won...
September 23, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia just won the World title in the super heavyweight at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. One of his opponents, the best snatcher...