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Continuing our World Wide Rigert-O-Mania, we introduce the photo of super heavyweight Bohuslav Braum of Czech Republic. Bohuslav Braum (born in 1956) represented Czechoslovakia in 1979-1984. He won the bronze world and European medal...
On the photo, Arnold Luhaasr competes for Estonia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Arnold Luhaaar (1905-1965) was one of the strongest Olympic weightlifters of the 1920s and 1930s. He competed at the...
The cover photo of the History in Color series features Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko at the 1972 Championship of the USSR. Ivanchenko was one of the strongest athletes in this class in the...
“I loved to add some showbiz stuff to the weightlifting,” said recently legendary David Rigert about his days on the competitive platform. For a starter, David Rigert is an Olympic champion, 6x World Champion,...
The History in Color cover photo depicts Yurik Vardanyan competing at the tournament of World Record Makers in Las Vegas in August 1978. Style wise, it is a very rare case when Yurik did...
Olympic champion Alfred Neuland (1895-1966) of Valga, Estonia was definitely one of the landmark athletes in the history of modern Olympic weighting. Neuland was a pioneer of the snatcn/clean squat style technique and was...
Helmut Losch (1947-2005) of Stralsund, Germany was the first Olympic Weightlifter from East Germany to earn the title of World Champion. He won gold medal in the clean-and-jerk competition at the 1971 World Champiomship...
Just a casual conversation between world famous weightlifting personalities in the late 1970s. Left to Right: Leonid Zhabotinsky (2x Olympic champion), David Rigert (Olympic champion), Sultan Rakhmanov (Olympic champion) and Igor Kudyukov (Head coach, 1975-1980) of...
“If not today, then tomorrow you will be able to lift it up…” Those were the words of my coach. I was a young and emotional lifter. I was a fighter on the competition...
Bronislav Ryzhik of Zaporozye, Ukraine was one of the best Soviet flyweights of the 1980s. He was a world record holder, won the USSR Championships in 1983, 1984, 1985, USSR Summer Spatakiad in 1983, USSR...
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