Daily Archive: July 1, 2018
History in Color presents an Olympic press lifting by Jaakko Kailajarvi (Finland), one of the most exciting world class athletes to watch in the competitions in the 1960s and 1970s. Jaakko Kailajarvi (b. 1941)...
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Athletes of Team USA Weightlifting performs their readiness for upcoming Olympics in Melbourne in front of thousands of spectators at the famous Madison Square Garden arena...
History in Color: August 31, 1972, Munich, Germany – Yordan Bikov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria is on his way to win the Olympic gold medal in the 75kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in...
History in Color: August 3, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Super heavyweight Sultanbek Rakhmanov of the Avangard Club of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine wins the 110+kg class with 420kg total (185+135) at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and...
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – 24-year old Nikolay Kostylev wins the 67.5kg class with a new world record in total (112.5+125+145= 382.5kg)at the 1955 World Championships in Munich. Nikolay Kostylev...