David Rigert: Montreal, 1976
David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia performs the snatch lift at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Rigert won the gold medal in the 90kg weight class and became an Olympic champion. The Olympic...
David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia performs the snatch lift at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Rigert won the gold medal in the 90kg weight class and became an Olympic champion. The Olympic...
Alexander Pervy (1960-1985) was one of my personal favorite athletes in Olympic weightlifting. Very slick technician and strong lifter, he definitely was a clutch lifter in the competitions. The more pressure was mounting in...
Gerd Bonk of East Germany performs a clean-and-jerk lift (cj). The cj lift was the strongest lift of Bonk. It was Gerd Bonk who bypassed the 250kg record mark in the clean-and-jerk. Special thanks...
Legendary U.S. weightlifters Norbert Schemansky and Tommy Kono are captured on camera during the international tournament in Basel, Switzerland in 1953. Special thanks for the original b/w photo sent to us by Rolf Eberhard...
History in Color: 7x USSR Champion Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) and 11x USSR Champion Nikolay Shatov (1909-1992). They were the great pioneers of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting in the 1930s and 1940s. The original b/w...
One of all-time greatest Olympic weightlifters in the history of this sport, Mohammad Nassiri of Iran performs a snatch lift. Mohammad Nassiri competed at 4 Summer Olympics (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976). He won gold...
History in Color: Eduard Brovko (1936-1998) competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1963 World Championship in Stockholm. World class weightlifter Eduard Brovko became an outstanding coach after ending his career as an...
History in Color: Members of Team USA 1953 at the tournament in Basel, Switzerland. Left to right: Jim Bradford, Tommy Kono, Clyde Emrich, Norbert Schemansky, Dave Sheppard. Special thanks for the original b/w photo...
History in Color: Olympic champion Peter Baczako (Hungary, 1951-2008) performs the snatch lift at the 1979 Panononia Cup.
History in Color: Portrait of legendary athlete and coach Rudolf Plyukfelder (USSR). The original b/w photo was made during the 1961 World Championshio in Viena (Austria). Special thanks for the original b/w photo sent...