2024!
Happy New Year 2024 for those who is interested in international hockey history and/or… doesn’t mind numerology 🙂
Happy New Year 2024 for those who is interested in international hockey history and/or… doesn’t mind numerology 🙂
History in Color: December 19, 1982, Moscow, USSR – Super heavyweight champion of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Sultan Rakhmanov of the Avangard Club (Dnepropetrovsk) competes for Team Ukraine in the 110kg+ class at the...
History in Color: June 24, 1968, Leningrad, USSR – Kaarlo Kangasniemi, 27-year old middle heavyweight of Pori, Finland, wins a bronze medal in the 90kg weight ciass at the 1968 European Championships in Leningrad....
History in Color: August 4, 1971, Lubeck, Germany – 23-year old Nikolay Zakharov, bantamweight of Kemerovo, Russia snatches 125.5kg and sets a new world record in the 56kg weightclass at the USSR Cup in...
History in Color@LiftUp: April 26, 1973, Donetsk, Ukraine, USSR– Bantamweight Vladimir Anikin of the Army Club (Riga, Latvia) competes in the 56kg class at the 1973 USSR Championships in Donetsk. Anikin won a silver...
History in Color: August 4, 1971, Lubeck, Germany – Soviet featherweight Vladimir Anikin of Riga, Latvia competes in the 60kg class at the 1971 Baltic Cup in Lubeck. Vladimir Anikin (1946-1981?) was one of...
Legendary flyweight champion Kanybek Osmonaliev of Kyrzgyzstan turns 70! Kanybek Osmonaliev was a phenomenal flyweight of Team CCCP. From mid 1970s to mid 1980s, he won the 1980 Olympics, 4 World championships, 2 European...
History in Color: Kaarlo Kangasniemi, also known as “Kulta-Kalle” competes at one of the Nordic tournaments in 1968. Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Pori, Finland is a true legend of Olympic weightlifting. 3x Finnish Olympian, author...
History in Color: Estonia, Spring 1973 – Olympic champion Jaan Talts of Tallinn, Estonia competes in the 110kg class at one of the local meets in Estonia. After winning gold at the 1972 Summer...
History in Color: March 17, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – 23-year old Boris Pavlov. light heavyweight of the Spartak Donetsk club, is going for a world record in clean-and-jerk (192kg) in the 82.5kg class at...