Requiem For the Best Heavyweights (USA)
The History in Color series presents a group shot of the best heavyweights of Team USA in the 1950s. Actually, those were the best heavyweights not only of the USA but the whole world...
Monthly Archive: August 2018
Jean Debuf (France)
History in Color: October 28, 1951, Milan, Italy – Light heavyweight Jean Debuf of Team France competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1951 World Championships in Milan. Jean Debuf (1924-2010) was one of...
Jan Talts: Weightlifting Champion And a Gentleman
The black-and-white original for this History in Color photo of Olympic champion Jan Talts of Tallinn, Estonia was marked as “Jan Talts and friends in the restaurant in Tallinn. April 1968”. Not sure about...
Coaches and Athletes: Shams and Talaat (Egypt)
History in Color: Olympic champion, legendary Ibrahim Shams and his coach Aziz Talaat in Alexandria, Egypt in 1948. Original Photo Courtesy of Robert Kabbas (Australia)
Unsung Heroes: Dick “Smitty” Smith
The History in Color series feature a color version of the photo with two important characters in the Team USA Weightlifting history – trainer Dick Smith and lifter Phil Grippaldi. We published a few...
American Legends in Stockholm ’53
History in Color: August 29, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – Team USA middleweight Tommy Kono just became a World champion in the 75kg class at the 1953 World Championships in Stockholm. His teammate and another...
Arpad Nemessanyi (Hungary)
History in Color Arpad Nemessanyi (b. 1944) was one of the distinguished athletes from the famous Hungarian “magnificent seven” group that brought Hungary to the top level in the weightlifting world in the 1960s....
Ruben Manukyan (Armenia, USSR): Grace of Strength
The History in Color series presents a color version of the photos of Ruben Manukyan (1906-1978) of Yerevan Armenia, one of the most impressive Soviet weightlifters of the 1930s. Ruben Manukyan was a legendary...
Unsung Heroes: Vladimir Kononov (USSR)
History in Color: December 16, 1977, Ryazan, Russia – 26-year old sub heavyweight Vladimir Kokonov of Novokuybyshevsk, Russia competes in the 100kg class at the 1977 USSR Cup in Ryazan. Vladimir Kononov (b. 1951)...
Grigory Novak (USSR): World Wide Premiere in Paris
History in Color: October 19, 1946, Paris, France – 27-year old Grigory Novak of Team USSR makes a bold first appearance at the World Championships in Paris. It was the first World Championships ever...
