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Weight Lifting

USSR Commemorative Silver Coin

Series: Games of XXII Olympiad. Moscow. 1980
Weight Lifting

Par : 10 rubles

Release Date: 1979

Mint:Leningrad Mint(LMD) ( ST. Petersburg)

USSR Commemorative Silver Coin 10 rubles Proof and UNC Weight Lifting Games of XXII Olympiad
USSR Commemorative Silver Coin 10 rubles Proof and UNC Weight Lifting Games of XXII Olympiad

Metal, fineness Silver 900/1000
Quality Proof and UNC
Content chemically pure metal, g 30
Total weight, g 33.33
Thickness, mm 3.3
Diameter, mm 39
The edge 300 corrugations.
Mintage, pcs. 107928 / 207078

Weight-lifting as a form of weightlifting has appeared in Russia in the late ΧΙΧ century. Competitions are held in a weight-lifting with free weights weighing 16, 24 and 32 kg on the program standings: push two dumbbells with both hands, jerk the weights of one and the other hand, without a break for rest, or program of a long cycle: two push weights with two hands, plus a short descent weights.

International Federation of weight-lifting (IFESCCO) was established in 1992. The first European Championships in weightlifting sport took place in 1992, the first world championship in 1993, the first World Cup in 1994.

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