Rigert in Montreal (1976)
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia snatches 170kg in the 3rd attempt and sets an Olympic record in the 90kg weight class at the 1976 Summer...
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia snatches 170kg in the 3rd attempt and sets an Olympic record in the 90kg weight class at the 1976 Summer...
The History in Color series features legendary Polish lightweight Waldemar Baszanowski competing at his last Summer Olympics. By all means, Waldemar Baszanowski was a true legend of Olympic weightlifting. He was a 2x Olympic...
History in color: 4x Olympian, European champion Eino Makinen (1926-2014) of Tampere, Finland competes in the 90+kg weight class in the weightlifting match between Finland, Estonia and Leningrad in 1961. Eino “Eikka” Makinen represented...
History in Color: World champion Vladimir Kanygin, middleweight from Blagoveshchensk, Russia competes in the snatch lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow. 1971 Championship of the USSR Location: Moscow Russia Weight Class: Middleweight [75 kg]More Info On the...
History in Color: Legendary middleweight, Olympic champion, 5x World champion, 7x European champion, 9x CCCP champion, Viktor Kurentsov of Khabarovsk, Russia competes at the 1966 World championship in East Berlin. World Championships from 1891...
History in Color: April 14, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – Yury Kozin of the Dynamo Moscow, Russia presses 208kg and sets a world record in the 110kg class at the 1972 USSR Championship in Tallinn....
History in Color: American weightlifting greats Bob Hoffman and Joe Di Pietro are having fun and enjoying a nice weather day on the ship making their way to the championship in Europe in the...
History in Color: September 2, 1972, Minich, Germany – Light heavyweight Christos Iakovou of Team Greece takes the 5th place with the 490kg in total (170 + 137.5+ 182.5) at the 1972 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: April 11, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – Rafael Belenkov of Minsk, Belarus sets a new world record in press (128kg) in the bantamweight class at the 1972 USSR Championship in Tallinn, Estonia....
History in Color: World records holder, Pan-Am Games champ and World vice-champ, super heavyweight Dave Ashman of Team USA Weightlifting steals the crowd’s attention with his heavy back squats at the Muscle Beach, California...