Abdul Wahid Aziz (Iraq)
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – 29-year old Abdul Wahid Aziz, lightweight of Team Iraq, snatches 115kg in his 3rd attempt on his unforgettable way to a bronze medal in the...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – 29-year old Abdul Wahid Aziz, lightweight of Team Iraq, snatches 115kg in his 3rd attempt on his unforgettable way to a bronze medal in the...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Middleweight Alexander Kurynov of Team USSR performs a snatch lift on his way to his gold medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1960...
History in Color: June 14, 1978, Havirov, Czechoslovakia – Vice champion of the 1976 Summer Olympics, 28-year-old middleweight Vartan Militosyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia competes for the Soviet national team in the 75kg weight...
History in Color: October 27, 1951, Milan, Italy – Peter George, 22-year old middleweight of Akron, OH, jerks 157.5kg in the 75kg weight class and wins a gold medal at the 1951 World Championships...
History in Color: December 18, 1973, Tuapse, Russia – Super heavyweight winners at the medal ceremony of the 110+kg class at the 1973 USSR Cup held at the Seaman Palace in Tuapse (left to...
The day of December 28, 2019 marks the 10th Anniversary of the death of legendary super heavyweight lifter Khristo Plachkov (1953-2009) of Bulgaria. He was truly a legend in the history of Olympic weightlifting....
History in Color: October 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old Stefan Topurov of Team Bulgaria sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (180kg) in the 60kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships...
History in Color June 16, 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legends of the U.S. weightlifting are being introduced during the introduction at the USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting match in the Green Theater in Moscow...
History in Color: September 19, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – Legend of French Olympic weightlifting, Marcel Paterni competes in the clean-and-jerk program in the 75kg weight class at the 1962 World and European Championships in...