Peter Korol
Olympic Champion Peter Korol (1941-2015) of Dynamo Lvov, Ukraine performs front squats while training with the national Team CCCP Weightlifting before the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. From the History in Color series at...
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Jaan Talts (HIC)
Olympic Champion Jaan Talts of Estonia and Team CCCP weightlifting just finished the clean part of the lift. From the History in Color series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski. Previously in the History in Color...
Vladimir Ryzhenkov
World Champion and author of 12 world records, Vladimir Ryzhenkov (1948-2011) of Dynamo Moscow and Team CCCP Weightlifting during the training session. Ryzhenkov was one of the world most impressive and brightest stars in...
Rigertomania In Action
On the cover: Heated pep-talk in our weightlifting gym before the Championship of Moscow in the early 1980s. My coach Vladimir Glyadkovsky (on the left) gives some strategic input on upcoming competitions. I am...
Team Czechoslovakia (1980)
Members of Team Czechoslovakia Weightlifting gathered for a group shot before going to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Left to right: Top row: Emil Brzoska (Head coach), Ota Zaremba (gold, 100kg), Bohuslav Braum...
Anthropometry
Members of Team CCCP Weightlifting perform an anthropometry session in the training camp in the late 1970s. Left to right: Sergey Arakelov (100kg, Krasnodar, Russia), Sultan Rakhnamov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Valery Shary (90kg, Minsk,...
David Rigert: Montreal, 1976
David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia performs the snatch lift at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Rigert won the gold medal in the 90kg weight class and became an Olympic champion. The Olympic...
Alexander Pervy
Alexander Pervy (1960-1985) was one of my personal favorite athletes in Olympic weightlifting. Very slick technician and strong lifter, he definitely was a clutch lifter in the competitions. The more pressure was mounting in...
Bonk
Gerd Bonk of East Germany performs a clean-and-jerk lift (cj). The cj lift was the strongest lift of Bonk. It was Gerd Bonk who bypassed the 250kg record mark in the clean-and-jerk. Special thanks...
Schemansky and Kono in Switzerland
Legendary U.S. weightlifters Norbert Schemansky and Tommy Kono are captured on camera during the international tournament in Basel, Switzerland in 1953. Special thanks for the original b/w photo sent to us by Rolf Eberhard...
