Alexander Kurlovich
History in color: One of the best super heavyweights of all times, 2x Olympic champion Alexander Kurlovich of Grodno, Belarus, competes for Team CCCP in the 110+kg class at the 1983 World Championship in...
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Kanybek
History in Color: July 4, 1975, Vilnius, Lithuania – Olympic champion Kanybek Osmonaliev competes in the flyweight class for the Burevestnik Club of Frunze, Kirgizia at the 1975 USSR championship in Vilnius, Lithuania. The...
Snatch Lifting By the King of Jerk
On the new History in Color cover, Vasily Alexeev is performing a snatch lift in the 1970s. Vasily Alexeev was the king of the clean-and-jerk lifts. His competition best jerk of 256kg was set...
Athletes and Coaches: Alexeev and Chuzhin
History in Color: Vasily Alexeev and his coach Alexander Chuzhin during the training in the Trud weightlifting hall in 1970 in Moscow, Russia. Vasily Alexeev and the coaches remains one of the somehow controversial...
Viva Las Vegas. Top 10 World Record Breakers.
History in Color: August 12, 1978, Las Vegas, USA – David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia sets a new world record in the snatch lift (178.5kg) in the 100kg weightclass at the invitational international tournament...
Alexander Senshin: World Record in Moscow (1980)
May 13, 1980, Moscow – Alexander Senshin of Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine clean-and-jerks 142.5 kg at the 1980 USSR Championship held at the Izmaylovo Arena in Moscow. It’s a new world record in the 52kg weight...
Trying To Press 170 kg In Munich
September 2, 1972, Munich, Germany – Light heavyweight Valery Shary of Minsk, Belorussia is performing one of his three official attempts to press 170kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Valery Shary competed...
Felix Naniev
November 28, 1971 – 21-year old Felix Naniev of the Northern Ossetia sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk lift at the 1971 USSR Championship (youth) in Cherepovets, Russia. Felix Naniev cleaned-and-jerked 194kg...
Gewichtheben Means Weightlifting In German
History in Color: David Rigert, his coach Rudolph Plukfelder, both of Team CCCP, and Rolf Milser of West Germany are smiling for the group shot after the end of the 90kg competition at the...
World Record By Dzhamal Panakhov
Dzhamal Panakhov in the History in Color A few days ago, we received a nice message sent to us by one of the best Soviet sub heavyweights (100kg weight class) Dzhamal Panakhov:...
