Joe Dube (USA) Turns 80!
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
February 15, 2024 – Great Olympic weightlifting champion, Joe Dube (USA) turns 80!!! Joe Dube is a true legend of American and world weightlifting. Competing for the United States, Joe became a World Champion...
Legendary flyweight champion Kanybek Osmonaliev of Kyrzgyzstan turns 70! Kanybek Osmonaliev was a phenomenal flyweight of Team CCCP. From mid 1970s to mid 1980s, he won the 1980 Olympics, 4 World championships, 2 European...
July 20, 2023 – Sad news came from Lviv, Ukraine. Legendary Soviev flyweight Adam Gnatov passed away in his hometown at 78. Adam Gnatov competed in the 52kg weight class. He was a vice...
July 1, 2023 – Happy Birthday to Jaakko Kailajarvi, legendary Finnish weightlifter, 4-time Olympian, champion and world records holder. In addition, it’s a special date in the history of Olympic weightlifting in Finland. On...
June 16, 2023 – Ben Helfgott, Holocaust survivor and British Olympian at the Olymics in 1956 and 1960, died at 93. Benjamin “Ben” Helfgott survived the Holocaust as a teenager and then he went...
March 20, 2023 – Happy 75th Birthday to Bobby Orr! Golden Goal in Bronze (TD Garden, Boston, MA)
February 11, 2023, Raleigh, NC, USA – Sad news came from North Carolina. Legendary American weightlifter, Olympic vice champion, Lee James passed away at 69. So far, it is known that he fell from...
January 3, 2023 – One of the best super heavyweights of the 1970s, Petr Pavlasek of Czech Republic passed away in Tyn nad Vltavou at 75. A 2x Olympian, Petr Pavlasek competed for for...
October 9, 2022 – Sad new came from Grozhy, Chechnya, Russia. One of the best Soviet mid heavyweights of the late 1970s – early 1980s, Adam Saydullaev passed away at 65. Adam Saydullaev competed...
October 9, 2022 – Legendary U.S. weightlifter, native of a world famous weightlifting town of York, Pennsylvania, USA, William “Bill” March passed away in his hometown. He was 85. Bill Match was a U.S....