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One of Olympic weightlifting best, 3x Olympic champion Kakhi Kakhiashvili of Georgia turned 50 on July 13, 2019! There are only 4 athletes that managed to win Olympic titles 3 times in the history...
History in Color June 16, 1955, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweights Paul Anderson of the United States and Alexey Medvedev of the Soviet Union exchange a friendly handshake before the first USA vs. USSR Olympic...
History in Color July 7, 1961, Moscow, Russia – 1960 Olympic champion, heavyweight Yury Vlasov competes for the Team USSR in the 90+kg weight class in the first match of the 1961 USA vs....
June 27, 2019 – Happy Birthday to legendary Olympic weightlifters Tommy Kono (USA, 1930-2016) and Vern Barberis (Australia, 1928-2005)! History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Olympic medal winners in the 67.5kg...
History in Color: December 19, 1976, Sverdlovsk, Russia – Medal ceremony for the 100kg weight class at the 1976 USSR Championships in clean-and-jerk (left to right): Anatoly Kozlov (Kholmsk, Russia, silver medal, 212.5kg), Vladimir...
History in Color: One of the top Soviet athletes of the 1960s, world record holder Viktor Shishov of Kiev, Ukraine performs a snatch lift in the national competitions in the Soviet Union. Viktor Shishov...
History in Color: December 17, 1977, Ryazan, Russia – Olympic champion David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia competes in the 100kg weight class and snatches the world record (176.5kg) at the 1977 USSR Cup in...
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Olympic medal winners in the 82.5 class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (left to right): Stan Stanczyk (USA, silver medal, 415kg), Trofim Lomakin...
History in Color: March 22, 1981, Lvov, Ukraine – 27-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia sets a new world record in the 110+kg class at the 1981 Friendship Cup in Lvov....
June 13, 2019 – Olympic vice champion Vartan Militosyan (1950-2015) of Armenia would have been 69 today. Happy Birthday to the great champion! The History in Color series features Vartan Militosyan as a cameraman...
Vasily Alexeev: Strong in Paris (1971)
12 Nov, 2019
Hans Zdrazila at the 1963 Danube Cup
12 Nov, 2019
Top 6 USSR Middle Heavyweights: Moscow, 1967
9 Nov, 2019
El Sayed Nosseir (Egypt): Training in Cairo,1929
9 Nov, 2019
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
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