Daily Archive: June 26, 2018
History in Color: Legendary American weightlifter Tommy Kono solely and proudly represents Team USA at the opening ceremony of the invitational international tournament Cup of Moscow in 1958. Thousands of Iron Game fans in...
History in Color: Karoly Ecser (1931-2005) was the strongest Hungarian super heavyweight of the 1960s. He was a part of the famous “Magnificent Seven” team that propelled Hungary to one of the best weightlifting...
The black-and-white original of this History in Color photo went viral on the web with the whole bunch of other funny pictures that make people laugh. It didn’t have a description – just a...
October 26, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Romanian middleweight Dragomir Cioroslan competes at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Dragomir Cioroslan (b. 1954) was a 3x Olympian of Team Romania. He represented his country in...
History in Color: September 30, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – Featherweight Marian Zielinski of Poland wins the 60kg weight class at the 1959 World Championships in Warsaw. Marian Zielinski (1929-2005) was one of the best...
History in Color features participants of the early weightlifting matches between Team Sweden and Team Finland back in the 1940s. Legendary Finnish heavyweight, 4x Olympian Eino Makinen is on the left. His Swedish counterpart...
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach A.Prilepin, June 19 1981) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: G. Baldin (massage therapist), V. Mazin (60kg, Shakhtinsk, Kazakhstan), Viktor Sots (100kg,...
History in Color: Mincho Pashov (b. 1961) of Plovdiv, Bulgaria is an outstanding international athlete of the 1980s produced by Ivan Abadzhiev and Team Bulgaria. Pashov is a Bulgarian Olympian. He took a bronze...