Igor Kalashnikov: World Record in Press in Tallinn
History in Color: April 13, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Igor Kalashnikov of the Moscow Dynamo club is on his way to win the 1st place and set a new...
History in Color: April 13, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR – 26-year old light heavyweight Igor Kalashnikov of the Moscow Dynamo club is on his way to win the 1st place and set a new...
History in Color: December 14, 1974, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR – Legendary Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1974 USSR Cup and wins gold medals...
History in Color: March 20, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia, USSR – Soviet super heavyweight giant Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia sets up a new world record in clean-and-jerk (240.5kg) in the 110+kg weight class at...
History in Color: June 28, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov, 28-year old super heavyweight of the Team USSR competes in the 90+kg weight class and wins a European title with...
History in Color: September 11, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden – 27-year old light heavyweight of Team Hungary, Gyozo Veres competes in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1963 World and European Championships in Stockholm. One...
Remembering Yury Vlasov (1935-2021) History in Color: September 10, 1960, Rome, Italy – 24-year old super heavyweight Yury Vlasov of Moscow, Russia, USSR brings into a spotlight his coach Suren Bogdasarov after a gold...
History in Color: June 3, 1979, Debrecen, Hungary – 17-year old super heavyweight Antonio Krastev of Haskovo, Bulgaria sets a new junior world record in clean-and-jerk (212.5kg) in the 110+kg weight class at the...
Back to never stopping conversations on pros and cons of Olympic press and the reasons why it was eliminated from Olympic weightlifting in 1972. The video also features Valery singing at the post competition...
History in Color: March 22, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Soviet super heavyweight candidate to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine sets 3 world records and wins...
History in Color: October 21, 1983 – Moscow, Russia – 16-year old Naim Suleymanov, rookie bantamweight of Bulgaria, sets a new world record (130kg) in the 56kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships...