Rigertomania In Action
On the cover: Heated pep-talk in our weightlifting gym before the Championship of Moscow in the early 1980s. My coach Vladimir Glyadkovsky (on the left) gives some strategic input on upcoming competitions. I am...
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Anthropometry
Members of Team CCCP Weightlifting perform an anthropometry session in the training camp in the late 1970s. Left to right: Sergey Arakelov (100kg, Krasnodar, Russia), Sultan Rakhnamov (110+kg, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine), Valery Shary (90kg, Minsk,...
David Rigert: Montreal, 1976
David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia performs the snatch lift at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Rigert won the gold medal in the 90kg weight class and became an Olympic champion. The Olympic...
Alexander Pervy
Alexander Pervy (1960-1985) was one of my personal favorite athletes in Olympic weightlifting. Very slick technician and strong lifter, he definitely was a clutch lifter in the competitions. The more pressure was mounting in...
Bonk
Gerd Bonk of East Germany performs a clean-and-jerk lift (cj). The cj lift was the strongest lift of Bonk. It was Gerd Bonk who bypassed the 250kg record mark in the clean-and-jerk. Special thanks...
They Were the First Ones
History in Color: 7x USSR Champion Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) and 11x USSR Champion Nikolay Shatov (1909-1992). They were the great pioneers of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting in the 1930s and 1940s. The original b/w...
Rudolf Plyukfelder (Viena, 1961)
History in Color: Portrait of legendary athlete and coach Rudolf Plyukfelder (USSR). The original b/w photo was made during the 1961 World Championshio in Viena (Austria). Special thanks for the original b/w photo sent...
Viktor Mosibit (USSR/Ukraine/Uzbekistan): Moscow, 1983
History in Color: August 1, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 23-year old super heavyweight Victor Mosibit competes for Team Uzbekistan in the 110+kg weight class at the 1983 USSR Championships and 1983 USSR Spartakiade held...
Arakelov
History in Color: Sergey Arakelov of the Spartak Club, Krasnodar, Russia competes at the 1978 USSR Championship in Kiev, Ukraine. Arakelov won the title in the 100 kg class with the 392.5 kg total...
