Happy Birthday to David Rigert!
Legendary David Rigert turns 72 today! Happy Birthday to the Legend!
Legendary David Rigert turns 72 today! Happy Birthday to the Legend!
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach A. Medvedev, Summer 1974) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: Eduard Dergachev (Minsk, Belarus, 67.5kg), Vladimir Anikin (Riga, Latvia, 56kg), Alexander Voronin...
“Two lady tourists tried to grab (Pavel) Pervushin behind the stage in Madrid. One was 17. The other one was 56. Both said that they wanted his autograph. However the security personnel of the...
History in Color: October 21, 1966, Berlin, Germany – 28-year old super heavyweight, champion of the Summer Olympics Tokyo, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine wins a gold medal in the 90+kg class at the...
History in Color: Summer 1956, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Trofim Lomakin is training with the Soviet weightlifting team in Moscow for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. At the time when the...
History in Color: December 19, 1982, Moscow, Russia – 28-year old Moscow super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Club celebrates after setting the new clean-and-jerk record (260kg) in the 110+kg weight class at...
History in Color: July 30, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Legendary light heavyweight Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia competes in the clean-and-jerk in the 82.5kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and Championships in...
History in Color: July 28, 1963, Moscow, Russia – 30-year old Soviet Army lightweight Vladimir Kaplunov of Khabarovsk, Russia is competing in the 67.5kg class at the 1963 USSR Spatakiade and 1963 USSR Championships...
March 5, 2019 – Legendary Grigory Novak (1919-1980), the first Soviet World champion and a great athlete and entertainer, would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Everybody knew him. He was a national hero. He...
History in Color June 18, 1955, Moscow, Russia – 34 year-old middleweight Yury Duganov of Team USSR is setting a new world record in snatch (132.5kg) in the 75kg class at the 2nd match...