Josef Manger (Germany)
History in Color features Olympic champion and pre-WW2 world strongest heavyweight Josef Manger of Bamberg, Germany. Josef Manger (1913-1991) began his career in sports with wrestling. At a young age, he joined the SC...
History in Color features Olympic champion and pre-WW2 world strongest heavyweight Josef Manger of Bamberg, Germany. Josef Manger (1913-1991) began his career in sports with wrestling. At a young age, he joined the SC...
History in Color: March 18, 1981, Lvov, Ukraine – 20-year old flyweight Zhenia Sarandaliev of Plovdiv, Bulgaria sets a new junior World record in clean-and-jerk (138kg) in the 52kg class at the 1981 Friendship...
History in Color features one of the Team CCCP weightlifting greats, World champion and the 1st light heavyweight to reach the 500kg mark in total, Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia performing pulls (mid-width grip)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Soviet lightweight Viktor Bushuev of Gorky, Russia wins the gold in the 67.5kg class with the 397.5kg world record total at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
On History in Color photo, Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006), the first Olympic champion of Team Poland and, by all means, one of the best middle heavyweights in the history of Polish and world weightlifting of...
History in Color: August 6, 1978, Edmonton, Canada – 23-year old light heavyweight Robert Kabbas of Team Australia wins a gold medal in the 82.5kg class at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. It...