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History in Color: September 7, 1960, Rome, Italy – 23-year old featherweight Isaac Berger of the United States competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Isaac “Ike”...
History in Color: December 16, 1979, Frunze, Kirgizia – 31-year old super heavyweight Aslanbek Yenaldiev of Ordzhonikidze, Northern Ossetia, Russia lifts 250kg in his last attempt in the clean-and jerk program in the 110+kg...
History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland –Middleweight Gerry Gratton of Canada goes for the world record in the press lift in the 75kg weight class of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952...
History in Color: An interesting group photo of the top Soviet Olympic weightlifters and coaches from the family archives of Vasily Denisov, one of the Team USSR top candidates in the 75kg weight class...
History in Color: The cover photo pictures Khristo Plachkov of Team Bulgaria performing snatch lift in the 1970s. Khristo Plachkov (1953-2009) of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria was truly a legend in the history of Olympic weightlifting....
History in Color Series: July 30, 1983, Moscow, USSR – Sub heavyweight Victor Sots of Donetsk, Ukraine is cleaning 227.5kg in his second attempt in the 100kg class at the 1983 USSR Spartakiade and...
History in Color: First of all, Happy Birthday to Mark Cameron, one of the best U.S. weightlifters in the history of this sport and one of the most impressive American contenders in the 1970s....
History in Color: Melbourne, Australia, November 1956 – U.S. Olympic champions in weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne gathered for a memory group photo (left to right): Isaac Berger (60kg, gold medal),...
History in Color: November 24, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Olympic medal winners in the 75kg class at the 1956 Summer Olympics are showing their medals earned in Melbourne (left to right): Peter George (USA,...
History in Color: August 30, 1972, Munich, Germany – Lightweight Mladen Kuchev of Team Bulgaria competes in the snatch lifting in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. At the...
Leonid Taranenko: 1978 USSR Cup
6 Dec, 2019
Alexander Varbanov: World Record in Moscow, 1983
2 Dec, 2019
Weightlifting Classics: Yury Vlasov in Paris (1964)
29 Nov, 2019
Valery Shary: National Championships in Kiev (1978)
21 Nov, 2019
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
