Club 500: Alexey Medvedev (USSR, Russia)
History in Color: March 8, 1958, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 30-year old heavyweight Alexey Medvedev of Moscow, Russia wins the 1st place with a 482.5kg total in the 90+kg weight class at the 1958...
History in Color: March 8, 1958, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 30-year old heavyweight Alexey Medvedev of Moscow, Russia wins the 1st place with a 482.5kg total in the 90+kg weight class at the 1958...
History in Color: July 29, 1961, London, United Kingdom – Weightlifting Olympians and guest athletes of the British Amateur Weight Lifters’ Association (BAWLA) Jubilee Championships are waiting for their turn to appear at the...
February 15, 2021 – Happy Birthday to World Champion and Olympic medalist Joe Dube (USA)! He turns 77 today. History in Color: March 23, 1968, York, PA, USA – 24-year old super heavyweight Joe...
Remembering Yury Vlasov (1935-2021) History in Color: September 10, 1960, Rome, Italy – 24-year old super heavyweight Yury Vlasov of Moscow, Russia, USSR brings into a spotlight his coach Suren Bogdasarov after a gold...
Legendary Yury Vlasov passed away in the morning of February 13, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. Just a couple of months ago we celebrated his 85th Birthday and now the sad news that he is...
History in Color: Feodosia, USSR, circ. 1978 – Soviet weightlifting champions at the meeting in the training camp in Feodosia (left to right): Igor Kudyukov (Team USSR head coach), Alexander Voronin (52kg, Kemerovo, Russia),...
History in Color: August 1, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 22-year old Ota Zaremba of Team Czechoslovakia competes in the 100kg weight class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and 1979 USSR Championships in Leningrad....
History in Color: July 19, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR – 25-year old super heavyweight George Dyachenko of Lugansk (Voroshilovgrad), Ukraine, competes in the 102.5+kg class at the 1964 USSR Championships in Kiev. George Dyachenko...
History in Color: December 22, 1968, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR – World record holder and outstanding heavyweight contender, Alexander Dzhedzhelava of Tbilisi, Georgia, competes in the 110kg class at the 1968 USSR Team Championships...
February 4, 2021 – Happy 80th Birthday to Kaarlo Kangasniemi! Olympic champion Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Pori, Finland is a true legend of Olympic weightlifting. 3x Finnish Olympian, author of 17 world records, Kaarlo Kangasniemi...