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History in Color: April 8, 1976, Berlin, East Germany – 22-year old World champion Trendafil Stoychev of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria competes for Team Bulgaria in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1976 European Championships in...
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin, East Germany – Finnish light heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi is about ready to start a lift in the 82.5kg class at the 1966 World and European Championships in...
History in Color: November 7, 1967, Budapest, Hungary – 19-year old bantamweight Karel Prohl, rising star of Czechoslovakian weightlifting, competes in the 56kg class at the international tournament of Olympic hopes held at the...
History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight Karl Pumpurins of the Dynamo (Riga) club competes for Team Latvia in the 110kg weight class at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at...
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin, East Germany – Legend of Finnish weightlifting, 4x Olympian Jaakko Kailajarvi of Tampere, Finland competes in the snatch program at the 1966 World and European Championships in...
History in Color: June 26, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Four months before winning an Olympic gold medal in the middleweight in Tokyo, Hans Zdrazila of Team Czechoslovakia wins a silver medal in the...
December 5, 2020 – Olympic champion, 4x World champion, 6x European Champion, 5x national champion, author of 31 world records, legendary Yury Vlasov turns 85. His phenomenon goes well beyond all the titles and...
November 30, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian coach and top national weightlifting executive administrator Yakov Krinitsky has died in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was 90. Yakov Krinitsky (1930-2020) of Kiev, Ukraine was a...
History in Color: December 15, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – 33-year old super heavyweight Nikolay Kozintsev of Donetsk, Ukraine competes in the 110+kg class at the 1974 USSR Cup in Zaporozhye. Kozintsev won a...
November 28, 2020 – British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died at 85. Before he became a world famous entertainer, he was also a champion...
Naim Suleymanov: Two World Records in Moscow (1983)
22 Jan, 2021
Olympic Champion Yury Zaytsev Turns 70
17 Jan, 2021
Club 500: Nikolay Khoroshaev (Russia, USSR)
14 Jan, 2021
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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