Robert Skolimowski (Poland)
The History in Color series presents lead Polish super heavyweight of the late 1970s and 1980s, Robert Skolimowski of Warsaw, Poland. Robert Skolimowski (b. 1956) was selected to represent Poland in the 110+kg class...
The History in Color series presents lead Polish super heavyweight of the late 1970s and 1980s, Robert Skolimowski of Warsaw, Poland. Robert Skolimowski (b. 1956) was selected to represent Poland in the 110+kg class...
History in Color: October 10, 1954, Vienna, Austria – 30-year old Olympic champion Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, USA wins the World title in the 90+kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships. It was...
History in Color: March 17, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – 23-year old mid heavyweight star of Team USSR, Sergey Poltoratsky performs a snatch lifting in the 90kg class at the 1970 Friendship Cup in Minsk....
History in Color: March11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight James Bradford of Team USA competes in the 110+kg class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow international tournament in Moscow. Jim Bradford (1928-2013) was one...
Happy Birthday to Legendary Rudolf Plukfelder! According to most resources he was born on September 6, 1928. According to people close to him, he was actually born in 1927. His papers were lost during...
History in Color: March17, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – Soviet featherweight Yury Golubtsov of Donetsk, Ukraine sets a new world record in the clean-and-jerk (158.5kg) and wins the battle vs. legendary Yoshinobu Miyake in the...
History in Color: Olympic champion, 4x U.S. Olympian, also known as “Mr. Weightlifting”, legendary Norbert Schemansky performs various support lifting in training for the Olympic press in the early 1960s.
History in Color: March14, 1971, Rostov, Russia – Super heavyweight Stanislav Batishchev of Donetsk, Ukraine reaches 600kg total in the 110+kg class at the 1971 Friendship Cup in Rostov. After this tournament, Batishchev joined...
Bernie C. goes back to school… He already went to school years ago and even got a diploma. No worries… He just wanted to go again with other folks today!
History in Color: December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine – Super heavyweight medalists receive USSR Championships awards in the 110kg class for the snatch lift at the 1981 USSR Cup in Donetsk (left to right):...