David Prowse (1935-2020)
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...
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Yury Zakharevich Sets 6 World Records per Night (Dnepropetrovsk, 1982)
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia performs a clean-and-jerk lift using “power jerk” style technique in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR...
Rising Stars of Olympic Weightlifting Train Outdoors in Shakhty, Russia
History in Color: Shakhty, Roston-on-Don region, Russia, USSR (early 1970s) – Rising stars of Soviet Olympic weightlifting Nikolay Kolesnikov (left) and Sergey Pevzner are training outdoors in a famous weightlifting school of Shakhty. Nikolay...
O Canada: Doug Hepburn and Dave Baillie (Vancouver, 1954)
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Canadian heavyweights Douglas Hepburn and Dave Baillie celebrate their top medal awards after winning in the 90+kg class at the 1954 British Empire and...
Yanko Rusev (Bulgaria): Big Night in Sofia in 1979
History in Color: July 9, 1979, Sofia, Bulgaria – 20-year old lightweight Yanko Rusev, member of the national weightlifting team of Bulgaria, clean-and-jerks a world record of 185.5kg and wins a gold medal in...
Jim Bradford (USA) Wins the Word Press Contest in Warsaw (1959)
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – U.S. super heavyweight James Bradford of Washington, DC, USA wins the press competition with a 170kg lift in the 90+kg class at the 1959 World...
1964 Olympians Ernesto Varona (Cuba) and Viktor Kurentsov (USSR) in Tokyo
November 7, 2020: Happy 80th Birthday to Cuban heavyweight champion and Olympian Ernesto Varona! History in Color: Tokyo, Japan, October 1964 – Cuban Olympian Ernesto Varona visits an outdoor training camp of Team USSR...
Moscow Wins the 1946 USSR Team Championships
History in Color: December 24, 1946, Gorky, Russia, USSR –Weightlifting Team Moscow wins the 1st place at the 1946 USSR Team Championships in Gorky (left to right): Team Captain Grigory Novak (Soviet Wings, Moscow,...
Team Canada and Miracle of Nature
History in Color: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, November 1956 – Members of the Canadian Olympic weightlifting team are sharing the training hall with Paul Anderson, legendary U.S. superheavyweght, also known as Miracle of Nature, during...
Coaches and Athletes: Akop Faradzhan and Vartan Militosyan (Armenia, USSR)
November 2, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet Armenian athlete and coach Akop Faradzhan (1930-1996) would have turned 90 today. Happy Birthday and Rest in Peace to a true Maestro of Olympic weightlifting! The History in...
