Karoly Bakos (Hungary)
On the cover photo from the History in Color series, one of all-time best Hungarian weightlifters Karoly Bakos of Budapest, Hungary performs a split-style snatch lift. Karoly Bakos (b. 1943) was one of the...
Daily Archive: August 7, 2018
Sergey Poltoratsky (USSR)
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – At the 1970 USSR Championships, 23-year old middle heavyweight Sergey Poltoratsky of the Daugava Club, Riga, Latvia wins a silver medal in the 90kg class...
Doug Hepburn (Canada)
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Legendary Canadian heavyweight Douglas Hepburn wins the 90+kg class of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at the Exhibition Gardens, Pacific National Exhibition in...
Charles Darwin, John Grimek and Marquis the Chimpanzee in London
History in Color: Legendary bodybuilder and Olympic weightlifter John Grimek of the York Barbell is flexing muscles with Marquis the Chimpanzee at the London Palladium in the late 1940s. Just out of curiosity, was Marquis...
