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On August 10, 2018 Russian weightlifting celebrates its 133rd birthday. The long story of Olympic weightlifting began with the gentlemen on the cover photo when Dr. V.F. Krayevsky founded his club in St. Petersburg,...
History in Color: March 5, 1983, Odessa, Ukraine – Super heavyweight superstar of the first half of the 1980s, Anatoly Pisarenko of Kiev, Ukraine competes in the 110kg+ class at the 1983 Friendship Cup...
History in Color: March 21, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – 21-year old bantamweight Daniel Nunez of Cuba sets his first world record (121kg snatch) and wins the 56kg class with a 260kg (120+140) total at the...
History in Color features Olympic champion and pre-WW2 world strongest heavyweight Josef Manger of Bamberg, Germany. Josef Manger (1913-1991) began his career in sports with wrestling. At a young age, he joined the SC...
History in Color: March 18, 1981, Lvov, Ukraine – 20-year old flyweight Xenia Sarandaliev of Plovdiv, Bulgaria sets a new junior World record in clean-and-jerk (138kg) in the 52kg class at the 1981 Friendship...
History in Color features one of the Team CCCP weightlifting greats, World champion and the 1st light heavyweight to reach the 500kg mark in total, Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia performing pulls (mid-width grip)...
On the cover photo from the History in Color series, one of all-time best Hungarian weightlifters Karoly Bakos of Budapest, Hungary performs a split-style snatch lift. Karoly Bakos (b. 1943) was one of the...
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – At the 1970 USSR Championships, 23-year old middle heavyweight Sergey Poltoratsky of the Daugava Club, Riga, Latvia wins a silver medal in the 90kg class...
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Legendary Canadian heavyweight Douglas Hepburn wins the 90+kg class of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at the Exhibition Gardens, Pacific National Exhibition in...
History in Color: Legendary bodybuilder and Olympic weightlifter John Grimek of the York Barbell is flexing muscles with Marquis the Chimpanzee at the London Palladium in the late 1940s. Just out of curiosity, was Marquis...
20 Aug, 2018
Yakov Kutsenko at the 1950 World Championships
20 Aug, 2018
Anatoly Khrapaty (USSR and Kazakhstan)
19 Aug, 2018
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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