Bonk
Gerd Bonk of East Germany performs a clean-and-jerk lift (cj). The cj lift was the strongest lift of Bonk. It was Gerd Bonk who bypassed the 250kg record mark in the clean-and-jerk. Special thanks...
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Schemansky and Kono in Switzerland
Legendary U.S. weightlifters Norbert Schemansky and Tommy Kono are captured on camera during the international tournament in Basel, Switzerland in 1953. Special thanks for the original b/w photo sent to us by Rolf Eberhard...
They Were the First Ones
History in Color: 7x USSR Champion Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) and 11x USSR Champion Nikolay Shatov (1909-1992). They were the great pioneers of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting in the 1930s and 1940s. The original b/w...
Nassiri
One of all-time greatest Olympic weightlifters in the history of this sport, Mohammad Nassiri of Iran performs a snatch lift. Mohammad Nassiri competed at 4 Summer Olympics (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976). He won gold...
Eduard Brovko
History in Color: Eduard Brovko (1936-1998) competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1963 World Championship in Stockholm. World class weightlifter Eduard Brovko became an outstanding coach after ending his career as an...
Team USA Weightlifting in Basel (1953)
History in Color: Members of Team USA 1953 at the tournament in Basel, Switzerland. Left to right: Jim Bradford, Tommy Kono, Clyde Emrich, Norbert Schemansky, Dave Sheppard. Special thanks for the original b/w photo...
Victor Mazin
History in Color: One of the most talented featherweight athletes in the world of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Olympic champion Victor Mazin competes for his hometown Shakhtinsk, Kazakhstan at the 1980 USSR...
Peter George: Thank You To All Historians and Fans of Olympic Weightlifting
Dr. Peter George, one of all-time best Olympic weightlifters that ever stepped on the competition platform in the history of this sport, said thank you for his birthday wishes sent from all over the...
