Stanislav Batischev |
Rudolph Mang |
Joe Dube |
Ken Patera medaling in good company. |
Four shots of Patera from Munich |
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Two shots of Gerd Bonk from Munich |
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Introduction of the supers, Munich 72 |
Khristo Plachkov scopes out the competition. |
Leonid Zhabotinski |
Zhabotinski helps Alexeyev button up. |
The original superheavy, Paul Anderson. His debut in the USSR caused as big a stir there as Alexeyev's did here. |
The inspirational American heavyweight Norbert Schemansky who competed at record setting levels into his forties. |
Schemansky with his best press of 415 lbs. |
Soviet heavyweight Yuri Vlasov |
American Bob Bednarski |
Ernie Pickett, Joe Dube and Bob Bednarski |
Finland's Jouko Leppa |
Janos Hanzlik |
Two pictures of Sultan Rakmanov, heir to Alexeyev's throne in the early eighties. |
Chalking up to tame the weighty steel. |
Yet another enormous and powerful Russian, reigning Olympic champion Andrei Chemerkin. |
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