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Re: In memorium.
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 11:38 pm
by strapping
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:08 pm
by strapping
Bud Charniga has passed away. He contributed a lot to the sport regardless of whether you agreed or disagreed with him, it's a big loss.
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:00 pm
by Hawkpeter
Oh man. That sucks to hear.
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:19 am
by Elle
Nooo...
Even if one may not agree with what he wrote, he deserves credit for having spread in the West several Russian texts (I have alla of them) and a culture of weightlifting that did not exist before, I think.
RIP
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2025 6:40 pm
by Hawkpeter
Seeing reports that Norair Nurikyan from Bulgaria has passed away. 2 time Olympic Gold medalist and Bulgarian Head Coach after Abadjiev. One of the original great Bulgarian lifters.
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:40 pm
by strapping
Sébastien Groulx CAN died aged 50 in a medical helicopter accident.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11264926/que ... ter-crash/
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:09 pm
by Hawkpeter
Bruce Klemens has reported on FB that Joe Dube passed away. 81 years old
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 12:58 pm
by strapping
https://m.ura.news/news/1052994735
Andrei Chemerkin has passed away, aged 53.
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 9:07 pm
by Hawkpeter
That's really sad about Chemerkin. I friended him on FB, he seemed to be a real fun loving family man now - lots of pictures of him playing with his grandkids. He'd lost a lot of weight and looked in reasonably good health.
When it comes to lifts you remember, his final attempt in Sydney is obviously up there, and also his 230 clean that he just held in his arms because his front rack was so tight.
I feel bad for his family.
Re: In memorium.
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 11:23 am
by strapping
Hawkpeter wrote: ↑Fri Sep 12, 2025 9:07 pm
That's really sad about Chemerkin. I friended him on FB, he seemed to be a real fun loving family man now - lots of pictures of him playing with his grandkids. He'd lost a lot of weight and looked in reasonably good health.
When it comes to lifts you remember, his final attempt in Sydney is obviously up there, and also his 230 clean that he just held in his arms because his front rack was so tight.
I feel bad for his family.
By all accounts, a gentle and friendly man. He kept active after his retirement but bad luck can happen to anyone. He is one of my favourite supers of all time, and really embodied the traits of what it is to be a super. Disrespecting 230 like he did in Sydney is absurd.