Oxen Mirzoyan (Armenia, USSR): Moscow, 1983
June 11, 2019 – Happy 58th Birthday to Oxen Mirzoyan of Armenia! History in Color: October 23, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 22-year old bantamweight Oxen Mirzoyan of Team USSR celebrates a new world record...
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Vaclav Syrowy (Czechoslovakia)
June 11, 2019 – Happy Birthday to outstanding Czech heavyweight Vaclav Syrowy (1934-2010)! Vaclav would have been 85 today. History in Color: March 9, 1958, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight Vaclav Syrovy of Team Czechoslovakia...
World Strongest Men Rivalry on the Beach
History in Color: 2x Olympic champions, super heavyweight legends of Olympic weightlifting, Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR are having an armwrestling match on the beach...
Imre Foldi (Hungary): Going For the World Record in Szombathely
History in Color: June 21, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, legendary Imre Foldi of Team Hungary is preparing to press a new world record (127.5kg) in the 56kg weight...
Kaarlo Kangasniemi (Finland) Wins a Gold Medal in the Press Lift
History in Color: September 26, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – Champion of the 1968 Summer Olympics, middle heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Finland wins a gold medal in the press program at the 1969 World Championships...
Vitaly Danilchenko: The First Soviet Junior World Champion
History in Color: Marseille, France, 1975 – Soviet junior flyweight Vitaly Danilchenko of Mariupol (Zdanov), Ukraine performs a clean-and-jerk lift at the 1975 Junior World Championships in Marseille. Vitaly Danilchenko (born in 1956) is...
Jim George (USA): Winning His 1st Medal at the Worlds in Munich in 1955
History in Color: October 15, 1955, Munich, Germany – 20-year old Jim George of Acron, Ohio, USA competes in the clean-and-jerk lifting in the 82.5kg weight class and wins a bronze medal at the...
Tommy Kono and Fedor Bogdanovsky in Moscow (1958)
History in Color: March 8, 1958, Moscow, Russia – Middleweight rivals, Fedor Bogdanovsky of the Soviet Union and Tommy Kono of the United States, are having converstion during the 1958 Prize of Moscow international...
Bo Johansson (Sweden): World Records Night in Sundbyberg (1971)
History in Color: November 14, 1971, Sundbyberg, Sweden – 26-year-old middle heavyweight Bo Johansson of Sweden cleans 210kg (WR) in the 90kg weight class at the 1971 Sweden vs. Finland weightlifting meet in Sundbyberg....
Jim Halliday (UK)
History in Color: James “Jim” Halliday (1918-2007) was one of the most memorable weightlifting characters of the post World War 2 decade in Olympic weightlifting. He earned his nickname “Jumping Jim” after developing a...
