165 Kg Press By Vladimir Golovanov
May 1968 – Lugansk, Ukraine, USSR: Olympic champion of Tokyo (1964), Vladimir Golovanov presses 165kg at the 1968 USSR Championship. The display behind the athlete shows the world record in the press lift –...
May 1968 – Lugansk, Ukraine, USSR: Olympic champion of Tokyo (1964), Vladimir Golovanov presses 165kg at the 1968 USSR Championship. The display behind the athlete shows the world record in the press lift –...
Olympic weightlifter Valery Smirnov (1953-2014, on the cover photo) of Leningrad, Russia was definitely one of the “unsung heroes” of this sport. For almost a decade, he dominated the 75kg weight class in the...
Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR, 1970 – The winners in the heavyweight class (110kg) of the 1970 USSR Cup on the medal stand. Left to right: Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, Russia, bronse medal), Valery Yakubovsky (Moscow, Russia,...
This photo brought a lot of memories. Many years ago, when I was a young aspiring weightlifter, I cut it from the book about Vasily Alexeev and added it to my weightlifting diaries with...
On the photo, Mati Nuude competes in the press lifting at the USSR Spartakiad in Moscow in 1971. It’s hard to add Nuude to the list of “unsung heroes”. Mati Nuude was a very...
History of Olympic weightlifting consists of many stories about legendary weightlifters, coaches, trainers and administrators. Some of them are well-known. Some less. Some for a variety of reasons escaped the spotlight of historic reviews...
The cover photo of the History in Color series features interesting group shot of Team CCCP and Team Bulgaria before the 1980 Olympics. The photo was taken in the Tsaghkadzor, Armenia facilites. Left to right:...
David Rigert has began his snatch pull… The photo was taken at the 1972 Olympics. It wasn’t the best performance by the legend. Nevertheless, Rigert continues to be a true inspiration in Olympic weightlifting. Go...
Karl Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competes in the press lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiad in Moscow. Pumpurins pressed 195kg in the 110kg weight class and took the 5th place with the 540kg total (195+145+200)....
Speaking of how low some of the Olympic weightlifters were able to capture the weight in the snatch lift squat… On the cover photo Vladimir Kononov of Team USSR snatches 170kg in the 100kg...