Team Army Wins the USSR Cup in Donetsk (1981)
History in Color: December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine – Members of Team Army receives the main award of the tournament after winning the first place at the 1981 USSR Cup in Donetsk (left to...
History in Color: December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine – Members of Team Army receives the main award of the tournament after winning the first place at the 1981 USSR Cup in Donetsk (left to...
The History in Color cover photo features Anatoly Mayasin of Team Latvia performing a snatch lift. Anatoly Mayasin (1931-2010) competed in the 67.5kg and 75kg weight classes for the Dynamo club of Riga, Latvia....
History in Color: December 7, 1971, Yerevan, Armenia – One of the strongest and most charismatic heavyweights of the 1970s, 24-year old Pavel Pervushin of the Army Club (Leningrad, Russia) sets a new world...
History in Color: March 10, 1961, Moscow, Russia – 30-year old light heavyweight Tommy Kono of the United States competed in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow International tournament in...
History in Color: August 1, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Club (Moscow, Russia) is competing in the clean-and-jerk program in the 110+kg class at the 1983...
History in Color: Summer 1976, Estonia – World records holder and national heavyweight champion, 30-year old Karl Utsar of Estonia is performing a snatch lift outdoors during a big farmers’ event in Estonia. Karl...
History in Color: April 26, 1974, Tbilisi, Georgia –Legendary super heavyweight, 2x Olympic champion Leonid Zhabotinsky congratulates 22-year old middleweight Alexander Galkin with a silver medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1974...
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – Weightlifting middleweight champions Fedor Bogdanovsky (left) of Leningrad, USSR and Peter George of Akron, OH, USA are receiving their medals and awards after competing in...
History in Color: May 16, 1951, Kaunas, Lithuania –National champions in Olympic weightlifting are being announced at the closing ceremony of the 1951 USSR Championships held at the Sports Palace in Kaunas (left to...