Alexander Kurlovich
History in color: One of the best super heavyweights of all times, 2x Olympic champion Alexander Kurlovich of Grodno, Belarus, competes for Team CCCP in the 110+kg class at the 1983 World Championship in...
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Icelandic Lyftingar: Gudmundur Sigurdsson
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 29-year old Gudmundur Sigurdsson of Iceland competes in the 90kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He won the 8th place with 332.5kg...
Athletic Club Of Dr. Kraevsky
Every story has its beginning. The official date of the beginning of Russian weightlifting is considered August 10, 1885. It was the day when the first weightlifting club of athletes was founded by Dr....
Kanybek
History in Color: July 4, 1975, Vilnius, Lithuania – Olympic champion Kanybek Osmonaliev competes in the flyweight class for the Burevestnik Club of Frunze, Kirgizia at the 1975 USSR championship in Vilnius, Lithuania. The...
Ibrahim Shams in London (1948)
History in Color: Legendary Olympic weightlifter Ibrahim Shams of Alexandria, Egypt competes in the lightweight class at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Ibrahim Shams (1914-2001) competed at two Summer Olympics – in 1936...
Snatch Lifting By the King of Jerk
On the new History in Color cover, Vasily Alexeev is performing a snatch lift in the 1970s. Vasily Alexeev was the king of the clean-and-jerk lifts. His competition best jerk of 256kg was set...
Athletes and Coaches: Alexeev and Chuzhin
History in Color: Vasily Alexeev and his coach Alexander Chuzhin during the training in the Trud weightlifting hall in 1970 in Moscow, Russia. Vasily Alexeev and the coaches remains one of the somehow controversial...
Viva Las Vegas. Top 10 World Record Breakers.
History in Color: August 12, 1978, Las Vegas, USA – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia sets a new world record in the snatch lift (178.5kg) in the 100kg weightclass at the invitational international tournament...
16-year Old Champ From Bulgaria
16-year old schoolboy from Bulgaria, Naim Suleymanov competes at the international tournament in the early 1983. In a few years, the media will nickname him as Pocket Hercules. Naim Suleymanoglu (1967-2017) was the first...
Serge Reding (Belgium)
The History in Color cover photo depicts legendary Belgian super heavyweight Serge Reding competing at the international tournaments in Moscow, USSR. Serge Reding needs no special introduction for anyone who followed the history of...
