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History in Color: October 3, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – Mid heavyweight Louis Martin, 23-year old rookie lifter of Team Great Britain, presses 137.5kg on his way to the gold medal in the 90kg weight...
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: Mexico City, Mexico, 1967 – Olympic champion Leonid Zhabotinsky, super heavyweight of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, performs snatch lifts in the training hall in Mexico City during the pre-Olympic training camp with the...
History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Yury Kozin, 23-year old heavyweight of the Team Moscow wins a gold medal with 567.5kg (197.5+157.5+212.5) total in the 110kg competitions at the 1971 USSR...
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – Olympic champion Peter George of Acron, Ohio, USA is on his way to win a gold medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1955...
History in Color: September 25, 1969, Warsaw, Poland –25-year old Masashi Ohuchi of Team Japan sets a new world record in the snatch lift (152.5kg) and wins the gold in the 82.5kg weight class...
History in Color: September 26, 1971, Lima, Peru – The super heavyweights receive their medals in the 110kg class tournament at the 1971 World Championships in Lima (left to right): Ivan Atanasov (Bulgaria, bronze...
Sad news came from Kazakhstan… Weightlifting champion, coach, world record holder, Dzhamal Panakhov died in Kokchetav, Kazakhstan. He was 65. Dzhamal Panakhov competed for the club of Dynamo, Kokchetav in Kazakhstan. His forte was...
History in Color: March 5, 1972, Ulm, FRG – World champion Vasily Kolotov, 28-year old middle heavyweight of the Team USSR goes for a world record in clean-and-jerk (208kg) in the 90kg weight class...
History in Color : August 1, 1967, Moscow, USSR – Middle heavyweight Yury Rascheskin of the Army Club, Tashkent competes for Team Uzbekistan in the 90kg class at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade and 1967...
History in Color: Moscow, October 30, 1983 –24 year-old Soviet heavyweight Vyacheslav Klokov is performing a 192.5kg snatch lift while competing in the 110kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Vyacheslav...
History in Color: September 6, 1951, Scheveningen, Holland – Olympic champion, 26-year old Stan Stanczyk of the York Barbell Club, USA completes a split-style snatch on his way to win the World title in...
Yury Kozin (USSR, Russia): 1971 USSR Spartakiade
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Masashi Ohuchi (Japan): World Record in Warsaw, 1969
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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