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Cover photo features legendary Soviet athlete and coach Arkady Vorobyev performing the clean-and-jerk lift in the heavy middleweight class at the 1954 World Championship in Vienna, Austria. By the end of this tournament, Vorobyev won...
One of the group photos of the national weightlifting Team CCCP at the training camp in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The estimated time of the photo session is 1978. Left to right: Front row: Vartan Militosyan,...
The cover photo from our History In Color series this time features Artavaz Cholokyan, the star of Georgian weightlifting of the 1960s. Artavaz Cholokyan was a flyweight Olympic weightlifter. He competed for the Dynamo...
The cover photo from our History in Color Series features the snatch lift by 2x Olympic Champion Charles Vinci of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Charles Vinci (b. 1933) was one of the greatest bantamweight athletes...
Vienna, Austria, 1954 – Olympic champion Trofim Lomakin of Moscow, Russia competes at the 1954 World Championship. The results of the tournament are presented below: 1954 World Championship Location: Vienna, AUT Weight Class: Light Heavyweight [82.5 kg]More Info...
July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Introduction of athletes before the beginning of the competition in the super heavyweight class at the Summer Olympics in Montreal Left to right: Jouko LEPPA (Finland), Jan-Olot NOLSJO (Sweden), Vasily ALEXEEV...
Former Olympic weightlifter and coach Gennady Ryabokon died on August 5, 2017. Ryabokon was an outstanding super heavyweight from Belorussia. He was the 8th Olympic weightlifter to bypass the 500kg landmark in total. Gennady...
History in Color: March 9, 1980, Podolsk, Russia, USSR – Heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of the Urozhay club, Minsk, Belorussia, snatches a new world record (187.5kg) in the 110kg weight class in Podolsk, Russia. A...
Looking through my photo archives, I found this old black and white picture with my coach in Olympic weightlifting. It was a great time for me. Time of learning. Time of hopes and expectations....
Bulgarian super heavyweight Khristo Plachkov (1953-2009) was the first athlete in the world that managed to snatch 200 kg. On the cover photo, Plachkov tries to snatch 200 kg at the 1975 World Championship...
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