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History in Color Series: March 11, 1976: Gerd Bonk of Team DDR lifts 252.5kg and sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk in Berlin. He added 5kg to the previous record held by Vasily...
History in Color Series: March 11, 1976: Gerd Bonk of Team DDR lifts 252.5kg and sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk in Berlin. He added 5kg to the previous record held by Vasily...
History in Color: Group shot of the members of Team CCCP before the departure to the 1982 European Championship in Ljubljana. Left to right*: Viktor Naumenkov (coach), Yury Zaxarevich (100kg, silver), Sergey Arakelov (110kg,...
History in Color: Legendary Soviet super heavyweight, Yakov Kutsenko carries the national flag at the opening ceremony of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. It was the first Olympics that the USSR ever...
History in Color Series: One of the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in the USSR, George Popov is working with his student Michael Kemel in the so-called “House of Popov” in Kiev, Ukraine. Popov competed...
History in Color series: Yury Vlasov lifts 202.5kg in the clean-and-jerk and sets the new world record at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. This was the grand finale of the weightlifting program of...
History in Color Series: The cover photo features Team Czechoslovakia Weightlifting in Poland during the 1957 European Championship in Katovice. The original black-and-white photo courtesy of Karel Prohl (vzpirani.cz). (left to right): Vaclav Psenicka...
History in Color Series: Olympic champion Leif Jenssen of Norway competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Leif Jenssen (b. 1948) became an Olympic champion in Munich in 1972....
Ivan Abadzhiev (1938-2017) and Norair Nurikyan (b. 1948) of Team Bulgaria made perhaps one of the most successful and productive coach-and-athlete and, later, coach-and-coach team throughout the history of Olympic weightlifting. As a young aspiring...
History in Color Series: One of the first appearances of Vasily Alexeev on the top level national competitions. Future super heavyweight megastar is appearing here with the unusual for Alexeev beard and mustache. He...
History in Color: A group of athletes of the 82.5kg class during the intro for the 1978 USSR Championship in Kiev. Valery Shary (not shown on the picture) of Army Minsk took the first...