Rafael Chimishkyan
History in Color features a color version of a clean-and-jerk lift by a legendary featherweight Rafael Chimishkyan (CCCP). Rafael Chimishkyan (b. 1929) competed in the 60kg class for Tbilisi, Georgia. Chimiskyan was the second...
History in Color features a color version of a clean-and-jerk lift by a legendary featherweight Rafael Chimishkyan (CCCP). Rafael Chimishkyan (b. 1929) competed in the 60kg class for Tbilisi, Georgia. Chimiskyan was the second...
History in Color: Waldemar Baszanowski (1935-2011) was a legendary lifter from Poland. He is one of the greatest weightlifters of all time and nations. As a member of Polish national team, he took part...
History in Color: Vladimir Starostenko (1942-2010) competed in the heavyweight class for the Burevestnik Club of Moscow, Russia. He authored a 194kg world record in the press lift in 1969 and won a silver...
History in Color features Bulgarian super heavyweight of late 1960s-early 1970s Dimitar Tramburdzhiev. Dimitar Tramburdzhiev (b. 1948) of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria was one of the candidates to the super heavyweight position with Team Bulgaria in...
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Olympic champion, 2x Olympic vice champion, captain of Team USA Weightlifting Peter George demonstrates a power snatch at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York....
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Athletes of Team USA Weightlifting seem to be happy, strong and confident before the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics in front of thousands of spectators at the...
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave Francis Scott Key … and should we add a humble but historically essential –...
This is a Happy 4th of July Olympic weightlifting style message! U.S. weightlifting has a long and impressive history of legendary teams, coaches and athletes. One of them was John Terpak (1912-1993) and, by...
History in Color brings memories about Viktor Solodov, outstanding Soviet middle heavyweight of the 1980s. Viktor Solodov (b.1962) of Kemerovo, Russia was a very powerful athlete of the 1980s. He competed for the Trud...
History in Color: First ever U.S. athlete that won the Summer Olympics in modern weightlifting, Tony Terlazzo of the York Barbell Club, York, PA shows his gold medal in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Tony...