Legendary Yury Vlasov Turns 85
December 5, 2020 – Olympic champion, 4x World champion, 6x European Champion, 5x national champion, author of 31 world records, legendary Yury Vlasov turns 85. His phenomenon goes well beyond all the titles and...
December 5, 2020 – Olympic champion, 4x World champion, 6x European Champion, 5x national champion, author of 31 world records, legendary Yury Vlasov turns 85. His phenomenon goes well beyond all the titles and...
November 28, 2020 – British actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died at 85. Before he became a world famous entertainer, he was also a champion...
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia performs a clean-and-jerk lift using “power jerk” style technique in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR...
History in Color: Shakhty, Roston-on-Don region, Russia, USSR (early 1970s) – Rising stars of Soviet Olympic weightlifting Nikolay Kolesnikov (left) and Sergey Pevzner are training outdoors in a famous weightlifting school of Shakhty. Nikolay...
History in Color: July 9, 1979, Sofia, Bulgaria – 20-year old lightweight Yanko Rusev, member of the national weightlifting team of Bulgaria, clean-and-jerks a world record of 185.5kg and wins a gold medal in...
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – U.S. super heavyweight James Bradford of Washington, DC, USA wins the press competition with a 170kg lift in the 90+kg class at the 1959 World...
November 7, 2020: Happy 80th Birthday to Cuban heavyweight champion and Olympian Ernesto Varona! History in Color: Tokyo, Japan, October 1964 – Cuban Olympian Ernesto Varona visits an outdoor training camp of Team USSR...
History in Color: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, November 1956 – Members of the Canadian Olympic weightlifting team are sharing the training hall with Paul Anderson, legendary U.S. superheavyweght, also known as Miracle of Nature, during...
November 2, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet Armenian athlete and coach Akop Faradzhan (1930-1996) would have turned 90 today. Happy Birthday and Rest in Peace to a true Maestro of Olympic weightlifting! The History in...
October 31, 2020 – Happy Birthday to Lee James (USA)! He turned 67 today. History in Color: Mexico City, Mexico, 1975 – Light heavyweight Lee James of Team USA prepares for his attempt in...