Norair Nurikyan
History in Color: September 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Norair Nurikyan of Team Bulgaria competes in the 56kg weight class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. Norair Nurikyan (b. 1948) is...
History in Color: September 16, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Norair Nurikyan of Team Bulgaria competes in the 56kg weight class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. Norair Nurikyan (b. 1948) is...
History in Color: October 24, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old Bulgarian feather weight Stefan Topurov clean-and-jerks new world record (180kg) at the 1983 World Championships and becomes the first man in the world...
History in Color: Legendary super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko and the head coach of Team Ukraine Yakov Krinitsky. Krinitsky was a personal coach of such distinguished champions as Vladimir Belyaev and Valery Kuznichenko (seen in...
History in Color: Young athlete Boris Pavlov, future Olympian, world champion and record holder, and outstanding Soviet athlete and coach Khasan Yagly-Ogly of Kharkov, Ukraine.
History in Color: Young Georgian weightlifter Kakhi Kakhiashvili and his coach Ivan Grikurov during the training in Tskhinvali. In a years to come, both will become legends in Olympic weightlifting world. Kakhi Kakhiashvili won...
History in Color: The titans of Estonian Olympic weightlifting of late 1960s – mid 1970s at the training session in Tallinn, Estonia. Left to right: Jaan Talts, Karl Utsar and Toivo Kurg.
History in Color: August 26, 1983, Moscow – Alexander Varbanov of Bulgaria wins his first world title in the 75kg class at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Varbanov went on to win gold...
History in Color: The first Soviet world champion, weightlifter Grigory Novak is challenging local strongmen for a friendly armwrestling match during a cultural visit of the USSR delegation to Burma.
History in Color: September 1970, JFK Airport, New York – Olympic weightlifters of Team Bulgaria are going home from the 1970 World Championships in Columbus, OH. Left to Right: Atanas Kirov (56kg), Atanas Shopov...
History in Color: King Baudoin of Belgium and his men are visiting Belgian Olympic team before the 1968 Summer Olympic Games of Mexico. The royal support helped! Belgian weightlifting greats had a great performance...