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History in Color: September 7-13, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden – Members of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. weightlifting teams are spotted during the sight seeing of Stockholm during the 1963 World Championships (left to right): heavyweight...
Legendary David Rigert turns 72 today! Happy Birthday to the Legend!
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach A. Medvedev, Summer 1974) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: Eduard Dergachev (Minsk, Belarus, 67.5kg), Vladimir Anikin (Riga, Latvia, 56kg), Alexander Voronin...
“Two lady tourists tried to grab (Pavel) Pervushin behind the stage in Madrid. One was 17. The other one was 56. Both said that they wanted his autograph. However the security personnel of the...
History in Color: Zdravko Stoichkov (born in 1964) of Targovishte, Bulgaria was one of the most promising young Bulgarian athletes of the 1980s. He competed in the 75kg and 82.5kg classes. On the national...
History in Color: October 21, 1966, Berlin, Germany – 28-year old super heavyweight, champion of the Summer Olympics Tokyo, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine wins a gold medal in the 90+kg class at the...
History in Color: Summer 1956, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Trofim Lomakin is training with the Soviet weightlifting team in Moscow for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. At the time when the...
As hardcore Olympic weightlifting and Iron Game followers know, the new book by Kaarlo Kangasniemi has been published in January 2019. It is called “Idrottens ljus och skuggor” in Swedish or “Urheilun valot ja...
History in Color: October 14, 1950, Paris, France – 1948 Olympic vice champion, 21-year old middleweight Peter George of Akron, OH, USA competes in the snatch program in the 75kg at the 1950 World Championship...
History in Color: December 19, 1982, Moscow, Russia – 28-year old Moscow super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Club celebrates after setting the new clean-and-jerk record (260kg) in the 110+kg weight class at...
Louis Martin (Great Britain): Press Lift Training
24 Mar, 2019
Rafael Chimishkyan: Happy 90th Birthday!
23 Mar, 2019
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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