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October 31, 2020 – Happy Birthday to Lee James (USA)! He turned 67 today. History in Color: Mexico City, Mexico, 1975 – Light heavyweight Lee James of Team USA prepares for his attempt in...
History in Color: November 24, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – 28-year old lightweight Vern Barberis of Australia makes a 105kg press in front of the home crowd at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria during the...
October 28, 2020 – Alexander Pervy would have been celebrating his 60th birthday today. He died a few months before his 25th birthday. So, this year 2020 marks the 35th Anniversary of his death...
Sad news came from the Perm’s region in Russia – one of the most talented and promising Soviet weightlifters in the late 1970s, a member of the national Team USSR, World and USSR champion,...
History in Color: March 21, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – Daniel Nunez, 21-year old bantamweight of Cuba, sets a new world record in snatch (121kg) in the 56kg weight class at the 1979 Friendship...
History in Color: October 17, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Soviet light heavyweight Vladimir Belyaev of Kiev, Ukraine, USSR presses 152.5kg in the 82.5kg weight class tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color: May 7, 1977, Roston-na-Donu, Russia, USSR – 20-year old middleweight Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 75kg class at the 1977 USSR Championships in Roston-na-Donu....
History in Color: Feodosia, USSR, 1979 – Group of candidates to the Team USSR weightlifting during training before the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (left to right): Sultan Rakhmanov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Alexander Voronin...
History in Color: August 28, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old light heavyweight Rumen Teodosiev of Burgas, Bulgaria competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1983 USSR Spatakiade and USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia....
October 12, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian athlete and coach Nikolay Komeshov (1920-2002) would have been celebrating his 100th Birthday today. History in Color: April 12, 1949, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR –Heavyweight champions of...
28 Oct, 2020
Pavel Syrchin (Russia, USSR): 1957-2020
27 Oct, 2020
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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