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History in Color: Moscow, Russia, USSR, September 1970 – Team USSR weightlifting just returned home after competing at the 1970 World Championships in Columbus, Ohio, USA and is now displaying their trophies in front...
History in Color: March 5, 1988, Tallinn Estonia – 29-year old sub heavyweight Alexander Popov of Krasnoyarsk, Russia competes for Team USSR in the 100kg weight class at the 1989 Friendship Cup in Tallinn....
Gottfried Schödl (Austria), former IWF President, died today at the age of 95. Mr. Gottfried Schödl was the President of the International Weightlifting Federation from August 1972 to December 2000. He ran the international...
History in Color: Athletes of Team France 1972 Weightlifting selected as candidates to represent the nation at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (left to right): Jean-Paul Fouletier (heavyweight, 2x Olympian – 1968, 1972),...
History in Color: September 23, 1975, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 28-year old super heavyweight Petr Pavlasek of Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia competes in the 110kg+ weight class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. Petr...
History in Color: July 25, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Legendary Soviet weightlifter, official and manager Alexander Bukharov is refereeing the bantamweight class (56kg) at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. It was the first...
History in Color: April 9, 1972, Budapest, Hungary– Light heavyweight Rumen Rusev of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, snatches 156kg and sets a new world record during the competitions in the 82.5kg class at the Danube...
History in Color: September 13, 1949, Paris, France– Olympic champion, bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of the US weightlifting team performs a press lift at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris. After the end of the...
History in Color: Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1975 – Weightlifting legend David Rigert is performing a narrow grip snatch in a training session before competing at the 1975 New Zealand Games. David Rigert was...
History in color: Tallinn, Estonia, USSR, 1957 – 4x Olympian, European champion Eino Makinen of Tampere, Finland competes a 170kg clean-and-jerk in the 90+kg weight class in the weightlifting match between Finland and Estonia...
David Rigert: 1975 USSR Spartakiade in Vilnius
5 Jul, 2020
Mladen Kuchev (Bulgaria): Ulm International in 1972
27 Jun, 2020
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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