Coaches and Athletes: Kudyukov and Rakhmanov
History in Color: Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov (right) of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and the head coach of Team CCCP Igor Kudykov during the training in March 1979.
History in Color: Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov (right) of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and the head coach of Team CCCP Igor Kudykov during the training in March 1979.
History in Color: Legendary Soviet athlete David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia is training to compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Note: While enhancing the original black-and-white photo to color, I had no...
History in Color: September 1981 – 23-year old Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo club in Kiev, Ukraine, is getting ready to compete for Team CCCP in the super heavyweight class at the 1981 World...
The History in Color cover photo presents a candid shot of casual conversation between two coaches, Ivan Abadzhiev (Bulgaria, right) and Alexander Prilepin (CCCP) during the 1982 World Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Obviously, the...
The History in Color presents a color version of the photo of young Hungarian athlete Gyozo Veres practicing a clean-and-jerk lift outdoors. As we all know, Veres became one of the best weightlifters in...
History in Color: September 20, 1975, Moscow, Russia – 22-year old light heavyweight Trendafil Stoichev of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria wins a silver medal at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. Trendafil Stoichev (b. 1953) was...
History in Color: Vice champion of Europe (1993), winner of the 1989 USSR Cup, USSR Champion in snatch, 1996 Olympian, Oleg Kechko of Minsk, Belarus competes in the 75kg weight class at the 1989...
History in Color: September 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Norair Nurikyan of Team Bulgaria competes in the 56kg weight class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. Norair Nurikyan (b. 1948) is...
History in Color series a color version of the portrait of two remarkable personalities in the early history of Olympic weightlifting in the Soviet Union. Jan Sparre Sr. (left) and Alexander Bukharov were the...
History in Color: October 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old Bulgarian feather weight Stefan Topurov clean-and-jerks new world record (180kg) at the 1983 World Championships and becomes the first man in the world...