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History in Color: June 25, 1968, Leningrad, USSR –27-year old super heavyweight Serge Reding of Belgium completes a 182.5kg press lift in the 90kg+ class at the 1968 European Championships in Leningrad. At the...
History in Color: August 1971, Travemunde, Germany – German heavyweight Gunther Wu of SV Phoenix Kassel and Soviet flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lokomotiv Lvov are flexing muscles during the 1971 Baltic Cup tournament in...
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – 33-year old heavyweight Ivan Veselinov competes for Team Bulgaria in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 World and European Championships in Warsaw. By the...
History in Color: December 12, 1980, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR – Rookie junior Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia wins a national title in the snatch lift on his way to become a 1980 USSR Cup...
History in Color: May 2, 1980, Beograd, Yugoslavia – 33-year old weightlifting super star, Olympic champion David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia snatches 181kg in the 4th attempt and sets a new world record in...
On the History in Color photo, weightlifting legend Chen Jingkai (1935-2010) of China is performing a snatch lift at the tournament in 1950s. Legendary Chen competed in the bantam and featherweight and set 9...
History in Color: August 2, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 23-year old heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus performs a snatch lift in the 110kg weight class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and USSR...
August 14, 2021 – Legendary Olympic weightlifter Yurik Sarkisyan (Australia, USSR, Armenia) turns 60. Yurik Sarkisyan had a long and distinguished career in Olympic weightlifting. At 18, he won a silver medal for Team...
July 30, 2021 – One of the most impressive weightlifters of the 1970s, World and European champion, world records holder, Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia celebrates his 75th Birthday today. Ivanchenko’s list of sports...
Very sad news for the world of Olympic weightlifting… Legend of this sport, Dr. Peter George passed away on Sunday. He was 92. I don’t think Peter George needs special introduction to anybody who...
Gunther Wu and Adam Gnatov (Lubeck, 1971)
17 Sep, 2021
Ivan Veselinov: 1959 World Championships in Warsaw
16 Sep, 2021
17-year Old Yury Zakharevich Wins the 1980 USSR Cup
15 Sep, 2021
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2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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