![Btshv.jpg](Vl1.jpg) Stanislav Batischev |
![Mang.jpg](Vl6.jpg) Rudolph Mang |
![Dube.jpg](Vl2.jpg) Joe Dube |
![Patera.jpg](Vl7.jpg) Ken Patera medaling in good company. |
![](Lkp1.jpg) Four shots of Patera from Munich |
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![](Lgb1.jpg) Two shots of Gerd Bonk from Munich |
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![Intro72.jpg](Vl5.jpg) Introduction of the supers, Munich 72 |
![Hndshk.jpg](Vl4.jpg) Khristo Plachkov scopes out the competition. |
![Zhabo.jpg](Vl8.jpg) Leonid Zhabotinski |
![Getready.jpg](Vl3.jpg) Zhabotinski helps Alexeyev button up. |
![Andrsn.jpg](Lpaula.jpg) The original superheavy, Paul Anderson. His debut in the USSR caused as big a stir there as Alexeyev's did here. |
![Nrbrts.jpg](Lnrbrts.jpg) The inspirational American heavyweight Norbert Schemansky who competed at record setting levels into his forties. |
![NS2.jpg](Lns2.jpg) Schemansky with his best press of 415 lbs. |
![YVlas.jpg](Lyvlas.jpg) Soviet heavyweight Yuri Vlasov |
![Bdnrski.jpg](Lbdnrski.jpg) American Bob Bednarski |
![PDB.jpg](Lpdb.jpg) Ernie Pickett, Joe Dube and Bob Bednarski |
![Leppa.jpg](Lleppa.jpg) Finland's Jouko Leppa |
![Hanzlik.jpg](Lhanzlik.jpg) Janos Hanzlik |
![Lrak.jpg](Lrak.jpg) Two pictures of Sultan Rakmanov, heir to Alexeyev's throne in the early eighties. |
![Rak2.jpg](Lrak2.jpg) Chalking up to tame the weighty steel. |
![Andrei2.jpg](Landrei.jpg) Yet another enormous and powerful Russian, reigning Olympic champion Andrei Chemerkin. |
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