Historical Requiem For a Heavyweight
Requiem For a Heavyweight or … Big Lifts By Big Guys or… Visual Retrospective of World Records in the Clean-and-Jerk by the Key Super Heavyweight WR Holders Just a historical visualization in progress
Requiem For a Heavyweight or … Big Lifts By Big Guys or… Visual Retrospective of World Records in the Clean-and-Jerk by the Key Super Heavyweight WR Holders Just a historical visualization in progress
Time in sports goes fast. Weightlifting techniques change. Rules change. Weight classes change. Training methodologies change. Equipment change. Mental preparedness for the competition stays… The History in Color series features a view of Olympic...
The History in Color series features an athlete-and-coaches photo of legendary weightlifter Yurik Sarkisyan (USSR/Armenia/Australia) and his coach Felix Aliev. Yurik Sarkisyan (b. 1961) had a long and distinguished career in Olympic weightlifting. At...
October 4, 2018 – one of the best middle heavyweights of the 1970s, Atanas Shopov of Bulgaria celebrates his 67th birthday! Happy Birthday, Champ! The History in Color series features Atanas Shopov competing for...
History in Color: 1975 Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach Igor Kudyukov) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: Alexander Voronin (Kemerovo, 52kg), x, Nikolay Kolesnikov (Rostov, 60kg), Vladimir Anikin (Riga, 56kg),...
Happy Birthday to Lasha Talakhadze. He is 25 today! Almost according to Shota Rustaveli’s “The Knight in the Tiger’s Skin” – Get this 270kg tiger! It’s yours!
10/2/2018 – Legend of Swedish Weightlifting turns 80 today! Happy Birthday to Ingvar Asp!
History in Color: June 11, 1972, Detroit, MI, USA – Middle heavyweight Rick Hobrook of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1972 AAU Senior National Championships and Final Olympic Trials in...
History in Color: Left to right: Vaclav Psenicka, Sr. (82.5+kg, silver), Vaclav Becvar (82.5kg+, 11), Josef Brumlik (82.5kg, 12), Josef Hantych (75kg, 10), Antonin Balda (67.5kg, 13), Jehka, Frantisek Simunek (60kg, 18)
History in Color: Front row: John Yamauchi (56kg), Dane Hussey (60kg), Dan Cantore (67.5), Jim Napier (75kg), Phil Grippaldi (90kg) Back row: Frank Bates (Coach), Murray Levin (Manager), Lee James (82.5), Frank Capsouras (90kg),...