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History in Color: July 31, 1967, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Nikolay Khoroshaev of Rostov-on-Don, Russia performs a press lift in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade and...
History in Color: December 25, 1970, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR – Yury Yablonovsky. heavyweight of the Avangard Club (Lugansk), competes in the 110kg weight class at the 1970 USSR Cup in Kiev. It was the...
January 10, 2021 – Happy Birthday to Anatoly Pisarenko! One of the most memorable super heavyweight champions of the 1980s turns 63 today. History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR – 24-year...
History in Color: July 27, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 26-year old flyweight Kanybek Osmonaliev of Frunze, Kirgizia performs a snatch lift in the 52kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and USSR Championships...
History in Color: March 19, 1975, Zaporozhye, Ukraine – Legendary David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia competes for the Team USSR in the 90kg class at the 1975 Friendship Cup in Zaporozhye. He won the...
This was not a day long basketball marathon game or some hockey rivalry classics game without goalies. It is a final score in kilos of the weightlifting meet between Team USSR and Team Czechoslovakia...
History in Color: October 17, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Soviet light heavyweight Boris Selitsky of Leningrad, Russia, USSR presses 150kg in the 82.5kg weight class tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight Karl Pumpurins of the Dynamo (Riga) club competes for Team Latvia in the 110kg weight class at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at...
December 5, 2020 – Olympic champion, 4x World champion, 6x European Champion, 5x national champion, author of 31 world records, legendary Yury Vlasov turns 85. His phenomenon goes well beyond all the titles and...
November 30, 2020 – Outstanding Soviet and Ukrainian coach and top national weightlifting executive administrator Yakov Krinitsky has died in Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was 90. Yakov Krinitsky (1930-2020) of Kiev, Ukraine was a...
Viktor Kurentsov (Russia, USSR): 1941-2021
8 Apr, 2021
Clyde Emrich (USA) Celebrates His 90th Birthday!
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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