Tagged: Olympics

Athletic On the Beach

History in Color: World champion Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia demonstrates some bodybuilding routines on the beach in the 1970s. Ivanchenko was a superb Olympic weightlifter who belonged to those who cared about their...

Heavyweights CCCP in 1971

History in Color: Introduction of athletes in the heavyweight class at the 1971 USSR Spartakiade. Left to right: Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, Russia), Valentin Danilov (Krivoy Rog, Ukraine) , R.Arutyunyan (Armenia), Michael Vashkevich Minsk, (Belorussia),...