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History in Color: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Spring 1979 –Olympic champion Valery Shary, middle heavyweight from Minsk, Belarus, is training with the other top candidates to compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow during the...
History in Color: July 9, 1975, Vilnius, Lithuania – Legendary Soviet weightlifter David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia competes in the 90kg class at the 1975 USSR Spartakiade and 1975 USSR Championships in Vilnius. 28-year...
History in Color: York, PA, USA, Fall 1954 – U.S. Weightlifting Team is on its way to the 1954 World Championships in Vienna, Austria (left to right): Clarence Johnson (team manager), NA, John Terpak...
History in Color: March 4, 1972, Ulm, Germany – Lightweight Mladen Kuchev of Team Bulgaria performs a press lift in the 67.5kg weight class at the pre-Olympic international tournament in Ulm, Germany. Six months...
History in Color: October 21, 1983 – Moscow, Russia – 16-year old Naim Suleymanov of Bulgaria sets a new world record (290kg in total) during the competition in the 56kg weight class at the...
History in Color: March 4, 1972, Ulm, Germany – U.S. middleweight Russ Knipp competes in the 75kg weight class at the pre-Olympic international tournament in Ulm, Germany. 2x U.S. Olympian Russ Knipp (1942-2006) of...
History in Color: August 6, 1971, Lubeck, Germany – Legend of Finnish weightlifting, Jaakko Kailajarvi of Tampere, Finland competes in the 90kg class at the 1971 Baltic Cup in Lubeck. Jaakko Kailajarvi (b. 1941)...
History in Color : July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – 33-year old weightlifting super star of the Soviet Union, Grigory Novak performs a split style snatch in the 90kg weight class at the 1952...
History in Color: March 4, 1972, Ulm, Germany – Top 3 flyweight contenders receive their awards in the 52kg weight class at the pre-Olympic international tournament in Ulm, Germany (left to right): Mustar Mustafov...
History in Color: Leeds, England, 1971 – Frank Rothwell performs a 170kg clean-and-jerk and wins his 12th Yorkshire Championship in Leeds, England in 1971. Frank Rothwell (born in 1936) is an Olympian who competed...
Epic Battle of Heavyweights in Tokyo (1964)
16 Sep, 2020
Blagoy Blagoev (Bulgaria): 1980 Olympics in Moscow
12 Sep, 2020
Vasily Mazheykov (USSR), 1948-2020
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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