Kolesnikov
June 12, 1978 – Olympic champion of Montreal (1976), Nikolay Kolesnikov of Shakhty, Russia competes at the 1978 European Championship in Havirov, Czechoslovakia. Kolesnikov won the tournament with the 290kg total (125+165) in the...
June 12, 1978 – Olympic champion of Montreal (1976), Nikolay Kolesnikov of Shakhty, Russia competes at the 1978 European Championship in Havirov, Czechoslovakia. Kolesnikov won the tournament with the 290kg total (125+165) in the...
On the History in Color cover photo, Rafael Chimishkyan is training in his gym in Tbilisi, Georgia. His coach Pavel Gumashyan is overseeing the lift. Both are preparing for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne....
Legendary Soviet lifter and coach, Arkady Vorobyev cleans the weight using split style at the 1955 World championship in Munich. Split style was dominant among weightlifters back in those days. It might look odd...
History in Color: May 12, 1958 – Team CCCP coach Alexander Bozhko assists Vladimir Stogov before his lift in the bantamweight competition of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago. John Terpack, Chuck...
At the 2017 European championship in Split, Croatia, Lasha Talakhadze, super heavyweight from Georgia, just set up a new world record in the snatch lift (217kg!!!!) Looks too easy and effortless for a world...
Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus just finished his attempt at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. This was the first World title won by Shary. He finished first with the 357.5kg total (162.5+195). There...
The History in Color photo features Karlis Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competing at the 1971 USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia. Karlis Pumpurins (b. 1941) was one of the graduates of Michael Freifeld’s weightlifting club...
The cover photo of our History in Color series presents Yurik Sarkisyan (1922-2004) and the graduates if his training school in Krasnodar Russia: Left to Right: Sergey Arakelov, Yurik Sarkisyan, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Mukharby Kirzhinov...
The photo from the History in Color features legendary David Rigert training with the Team CCCP Weightlifting in the late 1970s. More… Save Save
History in Color: Vladimir Anikin (1946-2010) was one of the strongest Soviet bantamweight lifters of the 1970s. He was a vice champion of Europe (1974), USSR champion (1974), USSR Cup winner (1971, 1972), USSR...