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History in Color Series: March 11, 1976: Gerd Bonk of Team DDR lifts 252.5kg and sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk in Berlin. He added 5kg to the previous record held by Vasily...
History in Color Series: March 11, 1976: Gerd Bonk of Team DDR lifts 252.5kg and sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk in Berlin. He added 5kg to the previous record held by Vasily...
History in Color: Legendary Soviet super heavyweight, Yakov Kutsenko carries the national flag at the opening ceremony of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. It was the first Olympics that the USSR ever...
History in Color Series: One of the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in the USSR, George Popov is working with his student Michael Kemel in the so-called “House of Popov” in Kiev, Ukraine. Popov competed...
History in Color Series: Olympic champion Leif Jenssen of Norway competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Leif Jenssen (b. 1948) became an Olympic champion in Munich in 1972....
Ivan Abadzhiev (1938-2017) and Norair Nurikyan (b. 1948) of Team Bulgaria made perhaps one of the most successful and productive coach-and-athlete and, later, coach-and-coach team throughout the history of Olympic weightlifting. As a young aspiring...
History in Color Series: One of the first appearances of Vasily Alexeev on the top level national competitions. Future super heavyweight megastar is appearing here with the unusual for Alexeev beard and mustache. He...
History in Color: A group of athletes of the 82.5kg class during the intro for the 1978 USSR Championship in Kiev. Valery Shary (not shown on the picture) of Army Minsk took the first...
History in Color: Phil Grippaldi (b. 1946) was one of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s. He competed in the 90kg weight class and had an impressive look of...
Thank you so much for the colorized photos of so many Soviet lifters. Many of these were before I got interested in lifting but many were also lifters who never got to compete outside...
History in Color Series: October 21, 1964 (Tokyo, Japan) – In his last attempt at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Olympic champion Yury Vlasov goes for 217.5kg in the clean-and-jerk. It’s a world record at the...