Hans Zdrazila: Moscow, 1964
History in Color: June 26, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Four months before winning an Olympic gold medal in the middleweight in Tokyo, Hans Zdrazila of Team Czechoslovakia wins a silver medal in the...
History in Color: June 26, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Four months before winning an Olympic gold medal in the middleweight in Tokyo, Hans Zdrazila of Team Czechoslovakia wins a silver medal in the...
December 5, 2020 – Olympic champion, 4x World champion, 6x European Champion, 5x national champion, author of 31 world records, legendary Yury Vlasov turns 85. His phenomenon goes well beyond all the titles and...
November 30, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian coach and top national weightlifting executive administrator Yakov Krinitsky has died in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was 90. Yakov Krinitsky (1930-2020) of Kiev, Ukraine was a...
History in Color: December 15, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – 33-year old super heavyweight Nikolay Kozintsev of Donetsk, Ukraine competes in the 110+kg class at the 1974 USSR Cup in Zaporozhye. Kozintsev won a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...