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It’s hot in Florida. The forecast for today says 101° F! Stay cool and alert. The History in Color: cover photo depicts two remarkable athletes of the old-time weightlifting classics, Vladimir Pushkarev (USSR) and...
It’s hot in Florida. The forecast for today says 101° F! Stay cool and alert. The History in Color: cover photo depicts two remarkable athletes of the old-time weightlifting classics, Vladimir Pushkarev (USSR) and...
History in Color: May 26, 1985, Katowice, Poland – 29-year old Soviet super heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus, USSR performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110+kg weight class at the 59th European Championships...
Adele had a dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adele is no William Shalespeare. In fact, she is my late companion and she is a Jack Russell lady terrier. With all these said, she is...
History in Color: April 26, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR – Light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko assists his Dinamo Riga Club teammate Karl Pumpurins while he competes in the heavyweight class at the 1970 USSR Championships...
History in Color: December 20, 1960, Ufa, Bashkiria, USSR –32 year old light heavyweight Rudolf Plukfelder of the Trud club (Shakhty) snatches 141.5kg and sets a new world record in the 82.5kg class at...
History in Color: December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine, USSR – 27-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik club (Moscow) receives a gold medal after winning the 1st place in the 110+kg class...
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL – The USSR Weightlifting Head Coach Yakov Kutsenko of Kiev, Ukraine joins the media line-up of photographers covering the team match of the 1958 USA vs...
History in Color: July 17, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine – 24-year old Vladimir Belyaev, middleweight of the Army Club in Kiev, sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (176.5kg) in his 4th attempt in the...
History in Color: December 1978, Fergana, Uzbekistan, USSR – 25-year old heavyweight Valery Kuznichenko of Brovary (Kiev’s region), Ukraine is getting ready for his lift in the 110kg class at the 1978 USSR Cup...
History in Color: May 23, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine – 24-year old super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo Club, Kiev is getting ready for his snatch lifting in the 110+kg weight class at the...