Royal Handshake In Moscow
September 23, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia just won the World title in the super heavyweight at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. One of his opponents, the best snatcher...
September 23, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Vasily Alexeev of Shakhty, Russia just won the World title in the super heavyweight at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. One of his opponents, the best snatcher...
September 26, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – 24-year old Swedish middle heavyweight Bo Johansson wins silver medal at the 1969 World Championships in Warsaw. Bo Johansson (b. 1945) was one of the best Swedish weightlifters...
History in Color: Legendary bodybuilder and Olympic weightlifter John Grimek (1910-1998) performing Olympic weightlifting in front of the audience back in his prime. As an Olympic weightlifter, John Grimek competed for the Team USA at...
History in Color: March 16, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Junior flyweight Anton Kodzhabashev of Burgas, Bulgaria performs a snatch lift at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow. Anton Kodzhabashev (b. 1959) went on to...
History in Color: August 29, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – 23-year old U.S. middleweight Tommy Kono just set a world record in clean-and-jerk the officials are conducting the weigh-in procedure with the new record holder...
This is not me. This is a quote from the “Three Sisters” by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. On the History in Color cover photo, Olympic Team USA Weightlifting 1980 prior to the 1980 Summer...
History in Color: Super heavyweight Sultan Rakhmanov (right) of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and the head coach of Team CCCP Igor Kudykov during the training in March 1979.
History in Color: Legendary Soviet athlete David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia is training to compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Note: While enhancing the original black-and-white photo to color, I had no...
History in Color: September 1981 – 23-year old Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo club in Kiev, Ukraine, is getting ready to compete for Team CCCP in the super heavyweight class at the 1981 World...
The History in Color cover photo presents a candid shot of casual conversation between two coaches, Ivan Abadzhiev (Bulgaria, right) and Alexander Prilepin (CCCP) during the 1982 World Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Obviously, the...