Marchuk
Vladimir Marchuk is mostly known as the first Olympic weightlifter who cleaned-and-jerked 260KG in 1982. Leonid Taranenko certainly clean-and-jerked 266KG at the Samboy Chips Cup in 1988 and even claimed that he was...
Tagged: History In Color
Batishchev
There is something futuristic in this photo from the 1960s. The way the characters are lined up. The way they act. It’s a Star Track of Olympic weightlifting. People no longer watch weightlifting like...
Teamsters In the 1970s
All three characters on the photo were team members of the Soviet national team in the late 1970s. Left to right – Alexander Voronin, Victor Okorokov and Nikolay Kolesnikov. Right before the 1980 Summer...
Weightlifting Controversies of the Past
It’s an interesting photo with Sultan Rakhmanov and Alexander Prilepin from the past of the Soviet weightlifting. Sultan Rakhmanov needs no special introduction. Olympic champion in Moscow 1980, he was a superheavyweight lead in...
Protected: OWL History in Color: Before World War II
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