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History in Color: Famous Finnish lightweight Jouni Grönman performs a snatch lift. Olympic weightlifting of Finland produced three medalists of the Summer Olympics. Jouni Grönman is one of these distinguished athletes. He won bronze...
History in Color: Leningrad, USSR, July 1979 – 30-year old Viktor Veretennikov wins the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in the 56kg weight class. Viktor Veretennikov (b. 1949) was a world class bantamweight from Volgograd, USSR....
History in Color: Moscow, July 31, 1983 – 22-year old Sergey Didyk of Vinnitsa, Ukraine is walking to the competition platform to break the new clean-and-jerk world record (261kg) in the 4th attempt in...
On the History in Color cover photo: Legendary Soviet middleweight, Olympic champion Alexander Kurynov (1934-1973) and Team CCCP head coach, 2x Olympic champion Arkady Vorobyev (1924-2012) are preparing for the competitions in the training...
History in Color: Two promising athletes that competed for Team Moscow in the 1970s. Yury Kozin (b. 1948, on the right) won the World Championship, the USSR championship and the USSR Spartakiade in 1971....
On the History in Color photo, legendary Yurik Vardanyan of Armenia is getting ready for his first clean-and-jerk attempt at the 1983 World Championship in the Izmailovo Arena, Moscow, USSR. 1983 European Championship Location: Moscow,...
Stockholm, September 17, 1958 – Legendary U.S. featherweight Isaac Berger sets a new 147.5kg clean-and-jerk world record at the 1958 World championships in Stockholm, Sweden. The original black-and-white photo is a famous shot by...
The “History in Color” series presents a glimpse on one of the most memorable Team USA Weightlifting that won the 1946 World Championship in Paris, France. Left to right: John Davis (82.5+kg, gold medal),...
The History in Color photo depicts, perhaps, one of the saddest moments in the sports career of legendary David Rigert. He was eliminated from the competition in the middle heavyweight class at the 1972...
On the cover “History in Color” photo, legendary Bulgarian lightweight and middleweight Yanko Rusev competes in the snatch lifting at the 1983 World Championship in Moscow. Yanko Rusev (born 1958) was a 5x World...
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