50 Years Ago in Alma Ata: Boris Selitsky (USSR)
50 years ago, on December 19-22, 1968, the 1968 USSR Team Championships tournament was held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. The winners were: 1st place – Soviet Army Team, 2nd place – Dynamo Team, 3rd...
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50 Years Ago in Alma Ata: Vasily Alexeev (USSR)
50 years ago, on December 19-22, 1968, the 1968 USSR Team Championships tournament was held in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. The winners were: 1st place – Soviet Army Team, 2nd place – Dynamo Team, 3rd...
Phil Grippaldi (USA): Toronto, 1976
History in Color: February 29, 1976, Toronto, Canada – 3x Olympian of Team U.S.A., Phil Grippaldi competes in the middle heavyweight at the Pre-Olympic weightlifting meet in West Toronto. Phil Grippaldi (b. 1946) was one...
Featherweight Giants: Isaac Berger (USA) and Rafael Chimishkyan (USSR, Georgia)
History in Color: Tbilisi, Georgia, 1961 – Legendary featherweights, Olympic champions Isaac Berger of New York, NY, USA and Rafael Chimishkyan of Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR. Isaac Berger celebrates his 82nd birthday today (Happy Birthday,...
U.S. Weightlifting: Strong in the 1940s
History in Color: Cleveland, OH, USA, 1949 – Lightweight medalists of the 1949 U.S. Senior National Championships (left to right): George (bronze medal) and Peter George (gold medal), both of A.C.M.W.L. Akron, OH, and...
Ravil Khabutdinov (USSR)
Lift Up: History in Color December 15, 2018 – Vice champion of the 1956 Summer Olympics, Ravil Khabutdinov would have celebrated his 90th Birthday. Ravil Khabutdinov (1928-1997) was one of the top guns in...
Eternal World Records: 198kg Press By David Rigert (90kg)
History in Color: July 13, 1972, Riga, Latvia – Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia presses a 198kg world record in the 90kg class at the 1972 Baltic Cup in Riga. David...
… And the World Title Goes to Gennady Ivanchenko!
History in Color: September 17, 1970, Columbus, Ohio, USA – Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia wins the World title in the 82.5 kg at the 1970 World Championships in Columbus. Ivanchenko...
Yury Yablonovsky: Record of the Union (1968)
History in Color: May 18, 1968, Lugansk, Ukraine, USSR – Yury Yablonovsky. heavyweight of the Avangard Lugansk Club, sets a new USSR record in the clean-and-jerk (192.5kg) at the 1968 USSR Championship in Lugansk...
Imre Foldi: World Record in Budapest (1965)
The Lift Up: History in Color series continues… April 9, 1965, Budapest, Hungary – legendary Imre Foldi of Team Hungary celebrates a new featherweight world record in press at the 5th Danube Cup in...
