Jan. 26, 2019 – Biography Book by Kaarlo Kangasniemi Will Be Out On Sale
Mark it on your calendar – January 26! It’s a 350 pages biography book and it’s a very exciting news.
Mark it on your calendar – January 26! It’s a 350 pages biography book and it’s a very exciting news.
January 12, 2019 – Happy Birthday to the legendary John Davis (USA). He would have been 98 today. On the History in Color cover photo, there are 9 Summer Olympics in various weight clases, 5...
The History in Color cover photo features legendary Team USA Weightlifting visiting Moscow during the historic USA vs. USSR weightlifting match in June 1955 (left to right): Stan Stanczyk (82.5kg), Clarence Johnson, Joe Pitman...
History in Color: U.S. super heavyweight Olympians – Joe Dube (left), bronze medalist of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. and Paul Anderson, champion of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
History in Color: 2x Olympic champions – Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR. Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016) won the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City...
Basically, no comments seem to be necessary for this History in Color photo. Norbert Schemansky, one of the greatest lifters ever, is watching the lifting by Ken Patera at the U.S. Olympic Trials for...
Mark it on your calendar – January 26! It’s a 350 pages biography book and it’s a very exciting news. A few thoughts off the top of my head: Kaarlo Kangasniemi is a truly...
History in Color: Olympic vice champion Stefan Dimitrov of Dobrich, Bulgaria competes for his country in the 60kg class at one of the international tournaments in the late 1970s. Stefan Dimitrov (1957-2011) was a...
History in Color: World and European Championships medalist Juhani Mursu of Team Finland competes in the 75kg class at the1969 Nordic Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. Juhani Mursu (b. 1940) was a very strong Olympic weightlifter...
January 7, 2019 – Legendary Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) would have been 77 today. Happy Birthday to the Legend! History in Color: July 24, 1971, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old Soviet super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev...