Monthly Archive: June 2018
History in Color: May 22, 1982, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine – 19-year old Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia competes in the 100kg class at the 1982 USSR Championships in Dnepropetrovsk. Yury Zakharevich won his first USSR...
History in Color: March 20, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia – Mohamed Traboulsi of Lebanon competes in the 75kg weight class at the 1974 Friendship Cup in Yerevan. That following morning, the “Soviet Sports Daily” reported...
History in Color: Sevdalin Marinov (b. 1968) became an Olympic champion when won the gold in the flyweight class at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Marinov competed for Team Bulgaria in the 1980s and became...
History in Color: Ivan Veselinov (b. 1926) was one of the best and most known Bulgarian weightlifters of the post World War II generation. From 1950 to 1968, he won 16 Bulgarian Championships! Veselinov...
History in Color presents a color version of the pnoto with one of the first and best graduates of Bulgarian weightlifting school by Ivan Abadzhiev, Alexander Kraychev. Alexander Kraychev (b. 1951) was one of...
History in Color: Mladen Kuchev (b. 1947) was the member of the first national team assembled by Ivan Abadzhiev when he was appointed to run national weightlifting Team Bulgaria. He was a 2x Olympian...
How much space? It didn’t matter. At least, looking at this photo of legendary Tommy Kono in the History in Color series, I seriously doubt that the matter of space or crowdedness really could...
History in Color features one of the most internationally decorated Olympic weightlifters of Sweden in the 20th century, Ingemar Franzen. Ingemar Franzen (1927-1985) competed in the middleweight. He represented Sweden at the the 1956...
History in Color: July 26, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Oleg Karayanidi competes for the Army Team of Moscow in the 56kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in Leningrad. Oleg Karayanidi (1957-1989) was very...
History in Color: November 10, 1957, Teheran, Iran – Ivan Abadzhiev of Bulgaria performs an Olympic press lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1957 World Championships in Teheran. In Teheran, future famous coach...