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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
History in Color: October 1966, East Berlin, Germany – Two key personalities of Olympic weightlifting of their countries, Bob Hoffman (USA) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake on the streets of East...
History in Color: July 29, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Vice champion of the 1976 Olympics, 29-year-old middleweight Vartan Militosyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia competes for Team Armenia in the 75kg weight class at the...
History in Color: July 29, 1961, London, United Kingdom – Heavyweight champions receive awards of the British Amateur Weight Lifters’ Association (BAWLA) invitational tournament at the Scala Theater in London (left to right): Eino...
The History in Color series featured several group photos of the Soviet Olympic weightlifters in the training camps of the national Team USSR. This time, we present a cover photo of three strong prospects...
History in Color: September 25, 1971, Lima, Peru – The winners of the press lift in the 110kg class receive their medals at the 1971 World Championship in Lima (left to right): Alexander Kraychev...
History in Color: March 18, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia –26-year old light heavyweight Vladimir Ryzhenkov of Moscow, Russia receives a gold medal for winning in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1974 Friendship Cup in...