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History in Color: July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 24-year heavyweight Lennart Dahlgren of Sweden performs his unforgettable “joy jump” while snatching 155kg in his 3rd attempt in the 110kg weight class at the...
History in Color: May 17, 1958, New York City, NY – Legendary Dave Sheppard (USA) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) are performing a friendly joint weightlifting during the 3rd match of the 1958 USA vs...
In the last 7 days Bernie C. showed an amazing behavior. He stayed home, didn’t get in trouble arguing with the other dogs or barking at the weird noises outside. He actually was peacefully...
History in Color: March 18, 1970, Minsk, Belorussia – Soviet giant of the super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia reaches 600kg (213+170+217.5) in total in the 110+kg class at the 1970 Friendship Cup...
History in Color: July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 20-year old super star of Bulgarian weightlifting, Valentin Khristov goes for 225kg in his 2nd clean-and-jerk attempt in the 110kg weight class at the 1976...
History in Color: July 21, 1971, Moscow, Russia – 24-year old light heavyweight Boris Pavlov of the Spartak Donetsk club is competing in the 82.5kg class at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at...
History in Color: One of the most impressive Olympic pressers in the history of weightlifting, Grigory Novak performs an Olympic press at one of many exhibition events in the USSR in the 1940s. Grigory...
March 15, 2020 – Happy 65th Birthday to Olympic vice champion Robert Kabbas of Australia!
History in Color: July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 25-year old Soviet heavyweight Yury Zaytsev performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. By the end...
Eino Makinen in Tallinn (1957)
1 Apr, 2020
Norb Schemansky: 1952 Olympic Tryouts
1 Apr, 2020
Marian Zielinski: 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
28 Mar, 2020
Vasily Alexeev: Big in London (1974)
27 Mar, 2020
27 Mar, 2020
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
