Great Britain's Dwain Chambers in the 60 metre sprint at the International Track and Field Athletics Tournament "Russian Winter 2012".05.02.2012#1030547
Track and field athlete Maxim Tarasov preparaing for a pole vault. Znamensky Brothers Memorial track and field tournament. Lokomotiv stadium.01.06.1996#825133
The Tournament of Hope. World Junior Weightlifting Championships in Moscow. Left: Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet weightlifter in super heavy weight, Merited Master of Sports, presents an award to 16-year-old weightlifter and winner of the competition.30.05.1990#8454305
Natalya Lisovskaya, merited master of sports, world record holder in shot put, 1987 world champion, winner of the 1987 European Cup. Spartak Sport Society.01.12.1987#8494228
Natalya Lisovskaya, merited master of sports, world record holder and shot putter, world champion (1987), winner of the 1987 European Cup. Spartak sports society.01.12.1987#8494227
Galina Chistyakova, Soviet track and field athlete and world record holder in long jump, with her husband, Alexander Beskrovny, at home in Moscow.18.08.1985#8367842
Galina Chistyakova, Soviet track and field athlete and world record holder in long jump, with her husband, Alexander Beskrovny, and daughter Irina.18.08.1985#8367841
Galina Chistyakova, Soviet track and field athlete and world record holder in long jump.18.08.1985#8367840
Galina Chistyakova, European champion in 1985, International Sports Master, world record holder in indoor long jump (7 meters 25 centimeters).01.07.1985#822161
Galina Chistyakova, European champion in 1985, International Sports Master, world record holder in indoor long jump (7 meters 25 centimeters), and her coach Vyacheslav Sokolov.01.07.1985#822160
Tamara Bykova, Soviet athlete and world champion in high jump, at a vineyard in the Rostov Region.05.09.1984#8209437
Tamara Bykova, Soviet athlete and world champion in high jump, meets Black Sea Fleet sailors.05.09.1984#8209432
Friendship-84 international competition. Track and field competition, August 17-18 in Moscow. Hammer throwing winner, two-time Olympic champion Yury Sedykh. Big Sports Arena of the Vladimir Lenin Stadium (now Luzhniki Olympic Center).17.08.1984#6351879
Moscow hosts the Druzhba (Friendship)-84 competitions at the Grand Sports Arena of the Lenin Central Stadium, now the Luzhniki Stadium. Photo: Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, World Track and Field Champion Sergei Bubka performs a pole vault.17.08.1984#8798400
Tamara Bykova, Soviet athlete and world champion in high jump, during a training session.05.06.1984#8209448
Tamara Bykova, Soviet athlete and world champion in high jump, at the Sports Palace in Rostov-on-Don (now Sport-Don).05.02.1984#8209434
Tamara Bykova, Soviet athlete and world champion in high jump, during a training session.02.02.1984#8209433
Tamara Bykova, Soviet athlete and world champion in high jump, interviews three-time Olympic champion in triple jump Viktor Saneyev.02.02.1984#8209431
The Ukrainian SSR. Three-time world weightlifting champion Anatoly Pisarenko near his home in Kiev.10.12.1983#8293682
Three-time world weightlifting champion Anatoly Pisarenko with his son Vladislav at home in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.10.12.1983#8577197
Three-time world weightlifting champion Anatoly Pisarenko during a training session in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR.10.12.1983#8577196
Three-time world weightlifting champion Anatoly Pisarenko and Soviet freestyle wrestler and three-time world champion Anatoly Beloglazov (wearing red) train in Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR.10.12.1983#8577195
Three-time world weightlifting champion Anatoly Pisarenko at home with his son Vladislav in Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR.10.12.1983#8577194
Two-time Olympic champion (Montreal, 1976, and Moscow, 1980) in hammer throwing Yury Sedykh walks with his daughter Aleksiya.30.09.1983#8204856
Two-time Olympic champion (Montreal, 1976, and Moscow, 1980) in hammer throwing Yury Sedykh works out.30.09.1983#8204855
Four-times European champion, twice world weightlifting champion, USSR Olympic team member Yurik Vardanyan.01.07.1980#813634
The VII Summer Universiade (August 15-25, 1973). Grand Sports Arena of Lenin Central Stadium (now Grand Sports Arena of Luzhniki Olympic Complex). Soviet track-and-field athlete and Olympic discus throwh champion Faina Melnik.18.08.1973#5773680
March 16-20, 1973. Tashkent in he Uzbek SSR hosts the 1973 Druzhba Prize international weightlifting competitions. Photo: Merited Master of Sports and winner in the heavy weight category Pavel Pervushin stands on the platform20.03.1973#5981189
March 16-20, 1973. Tashkent in he Uzbek SSR hosts the 1973 Druzhba Prize international weightlifting competitions. Photo: Merited Master of Sports and winner in the semi-heavy weight category David Rigert stands on the platform.19.03.1973#5981202
The 1969 USSR Athletics Championship at the Central Stadium in Kiev is the main stage of selection for the Soviet Union national team to participate in the European Championships in Athens. Soviet track and field athlete Alexander Bratchikov repeated the USSR record in the 400-meter race among men: 46.0.18.08.1969#8725580
The eighth European Athletics Championships at the Nepstadion stadium in Budapest (August 30 - September 4, 1966). Soviet athlete Valentina Tikhomirova is a gold medalist in the athletics pentathlon. Valentina Tikhomirova during training in the athletics hall. Running from a low start.02.09.1967#8722683
Moscow. The 4th Summer Spartakiade of Soviet Nations (July 28 -- August 4, 1967). The Swimming Pool of the Lenin Central Stadium, now the Olympic Swimming Pool and the Luzhniki Aquatic Sports Palace. Soviet swimmer Galina Prozumenshchikova won the 200-meter breast-stroke competitions and the 4 X 100 meter combined relay race.01.07.1967#8725379
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1966 USSR Track and Field Championship (August 12-14) in Dnepropetrovsk. Kiev resident Viktor Kudinsky finishes first in a 5,000 m race.16.08.1966#5935520
1966 USSR track and field championship in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. Tamara Press, three time Olympic champion, USSR champion, puts the shot.13.08.1966#5920339
Right: The first Soviet Olympic swimming champion Galina Prozumenshchikova, a student at the Journalism Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, prepares for an exam.05.06.1966#6286992
The first Soviet Olympic swimming champion Galina Prozumenshchikova won this title at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.15.05.1965#6283923
Center: The first Soviet Olympic swimming champion Galina Prozumenshchikova won this title at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.15.05.1965#6283921
US track-and-field athlete John Thomas calls on Soviet track-and-field athlete and Olympic high-jump champion Valery Brumel.02.05.1965#6339049
Soviet track-and-field athlete Valery Brumel (high jump), silver medalist of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, trains for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Tokyo (1964).13.07.1964#5951189
Javelin thrower, 1960 Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sport of the USSR Elvira Ozolina trains for a friendly US-Soviet match (July 25-26, 1964, Los Angeles.01.07.1964#5951204
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. The awards ceremony for heavyweight medalists, from left: silver medalist Karoly Ecser (Hungary, gold medalist Yury Vlasov (Society Union), and bronze medalist Serge Reding (Belgium).28.06.1964#6029159
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow. June 25-28, 1964. Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion, USSR Distinguished Master of Sports sets a new world record by lifting 165 kg.25.06.1964#6337799
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. Soviet middleweight weightlifter and gold medalist Viktor Kurentsov on the podium.25.06.1964#6029163
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. Soviet weightlifter, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and Olympic heavyweight champion Vladimir Golovanov, gold medalist.25.06.1964#6029161
The 44th European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, June 25-28, 1964. Soviet heavyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion and Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Yury Vlasov on the podium. The athlete set the world record clean and jerk of 165 kg.25.06.1964#6029156
Track and field athlete Valery Brumel, high jump champion of the 23rd Olympics in Tokyo, Meritd Master of Sport of the USSR with his baby son Sasha.11.06.1964#5948074
Janis Lusis, Soviet track and field athlete, member of the USSR Olympic team, European champion in javelin throwing, prepares for the 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.11.05.1964#5942994
Soviet track and field athletes, members of the Soviet Olympic team prepare for the 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. From right: USSR champion Kim Bukhantsev (discus thrower) and Valery Brumel (high jumper), Distinguished Master of Sports and silver medalist of the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.11.05.1964#5942990
The USSR-USA track and field match at the V.I. Lenin Central Stadium's large arena. Soviet athlete Valery Brumel sets the world high jump record of 2.28 meters.21.07.1963#5864694
Tamara Press, Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic champion in shot put, student of the Leningrad Engineering Institute (now St. Petersburg Institute of Architecture and Construction), left, during an exam.20.05.1962#5743583
International track and field competition between the USSR and FRG teams on the Lenin Central stadium (present-day Luzhniki). Soviet hammer thrower Vasily Rudenkov.26.08.1959#5627595
First USSR Summer Spartakiade (August 5-16, 1956) in Moscow. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Big Sports Arena at the Luzhniki Olympic Center). Long jumping sector. USSR champion, pentathlete Nina Vinogradova.10.08.1956#6401528
First USSR Summer Spartakiade (August 5-16, 1956) in Moscow. Vladimir Lenin Central Stadium (now Big Sports Arena at the Luzhniki Olympic Center). Journalists interview 1952 Helsinki Olympics champion in shot put Galina Zybina.10.08.1956#6402959
