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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...
History in Color: March 19, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – One of the most talented heavyweights of the early 1970s, Pavel Pervushin of Leningrad, Russia wins the 110kg weight class at the 1973 Friendship Cup...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Heavyweight contenders receive their medals in the 90+kg weight class in the last day of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics at the...
History in Color: October 18, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Finnish middle heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi competes in the snatch lift program in the 90kg class at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. In...
History in Color: April 13, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – 25-year old Boris Pavlov of the Spartak Donetsk club is competing in the 82.5kg class and wins a national title at the 1972 USSR Championships...
History in Color: June 28, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov, 28-year old super heavyweight of the Team USSR competes in the 90+kg weight class and wins a European title with...
History in Color: July 25, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – 29-year old featherweight Nikolay Saxonov of Svedlovsk, Russia competes for Team USSR in the 60kg weight class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. In...
May 23, 2020 – Olympic champion Asen Zlatev of Bulgaria turned 60! Happy Birthday, Champion!
60 Years Ago: Kono and Kurynov in Rome (1960)
20 Sep, 2020
Coaches and Athletes: Chuzhin and Kolotov
20 Sep, 2020
Epic Battle of Heavyweights in Tokyo (1964)
16 Sep, 2020
Blagoy Blagoev (Bulgaria): 1980 Olympics in Moscow
12 Sep, 2020
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
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