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History in Color: Vaclav Psenicka Sr. (1906-1961) was a truly legendary Czech Olympic weightlifter. He represented Czechoslovakia at three Summer Olympics – in1928, 1932 and 1936. Psenicka won silver Olympic medals in the 82.5+...
History in Color: September 13, 1949, Paris. France– Olympic champion John Davis of Team USA clean-and-jerks the original Apollon Wheels at the Elysee Montmartre in Paris. The original Apollon Axle was a set of railway...
History in Color: November 26, 1989, Moscow, Russia – Olympic vice champion Nail Mukhamedyarov of Uzbekistan competes in the middle heavyweight at the 1989 USSR Cup in Moscow. Nail Mukhamedyarov (b. 1962) was one...
History in Color: October 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Soviet weightlifters Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine and Rudolf Plukfelder of Shakhty, Russia are enjoying a photo shoot with a JASDF Officer in the Olympic village...
History in Color: Olympic champion Alfred Neuland (1895-1966) of Valga, Estonia was born 123 years ago on October 10, 1895. Happy Birthday to the remarkable champion and one of the truly landmark athletes in...
History in Color: February 1, 1965, Prague, Czechoslovakia – 23-year old Olympic champion Hans Zdrazila is pulling a 445kg weight during a training session for the 1965 World Championships in the gym in Prague....
History in Color: The lineup of the legends of the Dynamo Riga (Latvia, left to right) in 1971: Alexander Dynnikov (60kg), Gennady Ivanchenko (82.5kg), Karl Pumpurins (110kg), and Villis Perkons (90kg).
History in Color: Tehran, Iran, 1955 – During the historical 1955 Team USA Weightlifting Tour to USSR, Egypt and Iran, Team U.S.A. weightlifters meet the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Team USA (left...
Another corner of the porch with another attributes of the season.
Nobody can force Bernie C. to like these guys… We actually don’t blame him.
Paul Anderson: Circus Act in Leningrad (1955)
September 8, 2024
John Grimek at York Barbell Club
May 25, 2024
World Record by Vartan Militosyan (Armenia, USSR)
May 19, 2024
May 2, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
May 12, 2015
September 28, 2015
May 1, 2016
May 1, 2017
