Showing one's strength at a competition for spectators visiting all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok.18.04.2010#630555
Athlete performing "deadlift" at a sports festival with all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok.18.04.2010#630553
Athlete performing "deadlift" at a sports festival with all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok. "Deadlift" boils down to getting a 300-kolo bar off from the ground.18.04.2010#630552
Pacific Fleet sailor showing his strength at a competition for spectators visiting all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok.18.04.2010#630573
Athlete performing "tugging" stage at a sports festival with all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok.18.04.2010#630549
Athlete perfoming "tugging" stage at a sports festival with all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok.18.04.2010#630547
Athlete performing "deadlift" at a sports festival with all-around weight-lifting events for the Pacific Fleet Commander's Cup, held in Vladivostok. "Deadlift" boils down to getting a 300-kolo bar off from the ground18.04.2010#630544
Tournament of Hopes. World Championship in weightlifting among juniors in Moscow. Merited Master of Sports of the USSR. Young weightlifters from China during a meeting with Soviet weightlifter, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Merited Coach of the USSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the RSFSR Vladimir Pushkarev, right.30.05.1990#8454278
Tournament of Hopes. World Championship in weightlifting among juniors in Moscow. Karen Igityan, winner among young men in the weight category up to 75 kg.30.05.1990#8454277
Tournament of Hopes. World Championship in weightlifting among juniors in Moscow. Yury Doev, bronze medalist of competitions among young men in the weight category up to 90 kg.30.05.1990#8454274
July 5-20, 1986. The Goodwill Games in Moscow. Weightlifting competitions at the Izmailovo Sports Palace. From left: Winners and medalists in the 100 kg weight category: Nicu Vlad (Romania, sliver medal in two exercises), Ruslan Balayev (Soviet Union, gold medal) and Petr Krukowski (Polish People' Republic, bronze medal).20.07.1986#8843797
July 5-20, 1986. The Goodwill Games in Moscow. Weightlifting competitions at the Izmailovo Sports Palace. Winners and medalists in the 110 kg-plus weight category. Center: Leonid Taranenko (Soviet Union), second place. Left: Alexander Gunyashev (Soviet Union), second place. Right: Robert Skolimowski (Polish People's Republic), third place, on the pedestal of honor.20.07.1986#8843788
World champion, European champion (1981) Valery Kravchuk. CUp of the USSR and weight lifting championship of the USSR in individual exercises.01.12.1983#813785
World record holder in vault among super heavyweight lifters, trainee of Moscow sport club Burevestnik Vladimir Marchuk.01.12.1983#813782
Vladimir Mikhalyov, candidate member of national Olympic team of the USSR (under 75 kg weight). Weight lifting competition, palace of sport Izmailovo. VIII Summer Spartakiad of the People's of the USSR (July-August of 1983).01.08.1983#813133
The 8th USSR Peoples' Spartakiade (July 22-31, 1983) at the Izmailovo Sports Center in Moscow. Weightlifter the Czechoslovakian Soviet Socialist Republic Jiri Dudac.29.07.1983#6708127
The 8th USSR Peoples' Spartakiade (July 22-31, 1983) at the Izmailovo Sports Center in Moscow. Weightlifter from the Hungarian People's Republic Choka Peter.29.07.1983#6708120
The VIII Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, May 11 - August 5, 1983. American weightlifter Cladis Luke at the final weightlifting competition at the Izmailovo Sports Palace in Moscow, July 22-31, 1983.22.07.1983#8489372
Moscow. May 11-August 5, 1983. The 8th Summer Spartakiad of Soviet Nations . Photo: Hungarian weightlifter Gyorgy Rehus-Uzor take part in the weightlifting finals at the Izmailovo Sports Palace, July 22-31, 1983.22.07.1983#8415656
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Heavyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion (1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Leonid Taranenko on the platform.17.05.1983#6707820
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Flyweight weightlifter Bronislav Ryzhik on the platform. Third place in the competition.17.05.1983#6707819
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Bantamweight weightlifter, European champion Oleg Karayanidi on the platform. Silver medalist according to the results of the competition.17.05.1983#6707818
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Bantamweight weightlifter Oksek Mirzoyan on the platform. First place in the competition.17.05.1983#6707817
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Weightlifter Vladimir Marchuk on the platform.17.05.1983#6707816
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Flyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion (1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Kanybek Osmonaliev on the platform.17.05.1983#6707535
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Heavyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion (1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Leonid Taranenko on the platform.17.05.1982#6707824
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Heavyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion (1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Leonid Taranenko on the platform.17.05.1982#6707821
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Flyweight weightlifter Alexander Senshin on the platform. First place in the competition.17.05.1982#6707534
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Flyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion (1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Kanybek Osmonaliev is seen on the platform.17.05.1982#6707533
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Flyweight weightlifter, Olympic champion (1980), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Kanybek Osmonaliev is seen on the platform.17.05.1982#6707531
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Weightlifter, Olympic heavyweight champion, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR Sultan Rakhmanov on the platform.17.05.1982#6707529
The Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championships in Dnepropetrovsk, May 17-23, 1982. Photo: Weightlifter Vladimir Marchuk on the platform.17.05.1982#6707528
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Flyweight weightlifter Valentin Polonsky on the platform. Silver medalist at the end of the competition.17.05.1982#6707526
Ukrainian SSR. The 57th USSR Weightlifting Championship in Dnepropetrovsk. May 17 - 23, 1982. Bantamweight weightlifter Oksek Mirzoyan on the platform. First place in the competition.17.05.1982#6707525
The 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. July 19 - August 3, 1980. Weighlifting competition. Izmailovo Sports Center. Yurik Vardanyan, Soviet midweight weightlifter, USSR Merited Master of Sports and Olympic champion.27.07.1980#8173551
The 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. July 19 - August 3, 1980. Weighlifting competition. Izmailovo Sports Center. Yurik Vardanyan, Soviet midweight weightlifter, USSR Merited Master of Sports and Olympic champion after the award ceremony.27.07.1980#8173550
The 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. July 19 - August 3, 1980. Weighlifting competition. Izmailovo Sports Center. Yurik Vardanyan, Soviet midweight weightlifter, USSR Merited Master of Sports and Olympic champion.27.07.1980#8173534
Soviet weight lifter David Rigert, 1976 Olympic champion, many times champion of the USSR, Europe and world, a merited master of sports of the USSR, training in the Palace of Sports of the Krasny Kotelshchik factory.01.06.1980#497890
Fitter from the German Democratic Republic, a 24-year-old welterweight athlete Peter Wenzel won the gold medal (first gold won by a GDR athlete) at the World and European Weightlifting Championships in 1975. Lenin Central Stadium.17.09.1975#689902
Polish weightlifter Zbigniew Kaczmarek, silver medalist at the World and European Weightlifting Championships in 1975 (under 67.5 kilograms category)..01.09.1975#689904
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 Friendship Prize international weightlifting competitions in Minsk, the Belarusian SSR. Photo: Finnish heavy-weight weightlifter Kauko Kangasniemi, bronze medalist of the 1969 World Championships, on the dais after lifting his weight.01.03.1970#6264308
July 19- August 3, 1952. The 15th Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. On July 25, the Messuhalli Gym hosted the men's weightlifting competitions (weight category up to 56 kilograms). This photo shows Ivan Udodov, the first Soviet weightlifting champion after the medals ceremony.25.07.1952#8556531
July 19- August 3, 1952. The 15th Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. On July 25, the Messuhalli Gym hosted the men's weightlifting competitions (weight category up to 56 kilograms). Center: Ivan Udodov, the first Soviet weightlifting champion, who won gold on the pedestal. Iranian weightlifters Mahmoud Namju and Ali Mirzai won silver and bronze each.25.07.1952#8556503
