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History in Color: May 23, 1979, Varna, Bulgaria – 23-year old middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria wins a gold medal in the 75kg class at the 1979 European Championships in Varna. Yordan Mitkov...
The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter...
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: May 18, 1980, Moscow, Russia – 22-year old super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo Kiev club receive prepares for his lift in the 110+kg class at the 1980 USSR Championships...
October 3, 2021 – Legend of Czech and world weightlifting, Olympic champion Hans Zdrazila turned 80! Hans Zdrazila (born in 1941) of Ostrava, Czech Republic was one of the best middleweight and light heavyweight...
History in Color: September 27, 2021 – One of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s, 3x Olympian, Phil Grippaldi turned 75! Phil Grippaldi competed in the 90kg weight class...
History in Color: December 16, 1979, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Zaytsev, heavyweight of Zenith Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, wins the 1979 USSR Cup with a 407.5kg (170+237.5) total in the 110kg weight class....
History in Color: June 25, 1968, Leningrad, USSR –26-year old super heavyweight Serge Reding of Belgium completes a 182.5kg press lift in the 90kg+ class at the 1968 European Championships in Leningrad. At the...
History in Color: August 1971, Travemunde, Germany – German heavyweight Gunther Wu of SV Phoenix Kassel and Soviet flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lokomotiv Lvov are flexing muscles during the 1971 Baltic Cup tournament in...
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – 33-year old heavyweight Ivan Veselinov competes for Team Bulgaria in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 World and European Championships in Warsaw. By the...
History in Color: December 12, 1980, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR – Rookie junior Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia wins a national title in the snatch lift on his way to become a 1980 USSR Cup...
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Anatoly Pisarenko at the 1980 USSR Championships
15 Oct, 2021
Legendary Hans Zdrazila is 80!
6 Oct, 2021
Got Biceps? Phil Grippaldi Turned 75!
5 Oct, 2021
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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