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Vienna, Austria, 1954 – Olympic champion Trofim Lomakin of Moscow, Russia competes at the 1954 World Championship. The results of the tournament are presented below: 1954 World Championship Location: Vienna, AUT Weight Class: Light Heavyweight [82.5 kg]More Info...
July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Introduction of athletes before the beginning of the competition in the super heavyweight class at the Summer Olympics in Montreal Left to right: Jouko LEPPA (Finland), Jan-Olot NOLSJO (Sweden), Vasily ALEXEEV...
Former Olympic weightlifter and coach Gennady Ryabokon died on August 5, 2017. Ryabokon was an outstanding super heavyweight from Belorussia. He was the 8th Olympic weightlifter to bypass the 500kg landmark in total. Gennady...
History in Color: March 9, 1980, Podolsk, Russia, USSR – Heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of the Urozhay club, Minsk, Belorussia, snatches a new world record (187.5kg) in the 110kg weight class in Podolsk, Russia. A...
Looking through my photo archives, I found this old black and white picture with my coach in Olympic weightlifting. It was a great time for me. Time of learning. Time of hopes and expectations....
Bulgarian super heavyweight Khristo Plachkov (1953-2009) was the first athlete in the world that managed to snatch 200 kg. On the cover photo, Plachkov tries to snatch 200 kg at the 1975 World Championship...
The strongest man on the planet, Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) is in deep thoughts on this cover photo from the History in Color series. Alexeev dominated the super heavyweight class in the 1970s, made 80 corrections...
Olympic champion Rudolf Ismayr (1908-1998) of Germany is snatching squat style outdoors in the 1930s. He won the gold Olympic medal in the middleweight in Los Angeles (1932) and the silver medal in Berlin...
Early Olympians of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Psenicka Sr. (left) and Jaroslav Skobla in 1932. Vaclav Psenicka (1906-1961) competed in three Olympics (1928, 1932, 1936). He won silver medals in Los Angeles (1932) and in Berlin...
David Rigert of Team CCCP Weightlifting performs a “barefoot snatch” in training. From the History in Color series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
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