Nikolay Kostylev
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – 24-year old Nikolay Kostylev wins the 67.5kg class with a new world record in total (112.5+125+145= 382.5kg)at the 1955 World Championships in Munich. Nikolay Kostylev...
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – 24-year old Nikolay Kostylev wins the 67.5kg class with a new world record in total (112.5+125+145= 382.5kg)at the 1955 World Championships in Munich. Nikolay Kostylev...
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting during the friendly matches with Team Hungary (Budapest, 1950, left to right:) Front row: K. Nazarov, L. Sviridov, V. Svetilko, L. Sviridov (Delegation Lead), Ya. Kutsenko, Ye. Lopatin;...
History in Color: May 12, 1980, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Kanybek Osmonaliev competes in the 52kg class for the Burevestnik Club of Frunze, Kirgizia at the 1980 USSR championship in Moscow. Kanybek Osmonaliev...
History in Color: April 14, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – Legendary Soviet heavyweight Jaan Talts of Tallinn, Estonia wins his 3rd gold medal at the 1972 USSR Championships in Tallinn. Jaan Talts’ final total was...
History in Color: Gudmundur Sigurdsson (b. 1946) is one of the finest athletes that represented Iceland on the international arena in Olympic weightlifing. He was a 2x Olympian of Iceland. Sigurdsson represented his country...
History in Color features one of the best Swedish Olympic weightlifters of the 20th Century Per Ingvar Asp. Per Ingvar (b. 1938) was a Swedish Olympian. Asp competed for Team Sweden at the 1964...
History in Color presents a color version a rare photo with legendary Vasily Alexeev competing in a local meet: May 7, 1976, Ryazan, Russia – Vasily Alexeev bombs out in the snatch program at...
History in Color: September 17, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – 25-year rookie of Team CCCP, featherweight Eugene Katsura of Kazan, Russia wins a silver medal with a 110+107.5+140 = 357.5kg total in the 60kg class...
History in Color: September 26, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – A year after winning the 1968 Summer Olympics, phenomenal middle heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Finland wins a gold medal in the 90kg class with 175+150+190...
History in Color: September 27, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 26-year old John Davis of the United States wins the World title with 3 world records (in snatch, cj, total) in the 82.5+kg class...