Bill March (USA)
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Powerful middle heavyweight Bill March of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. March won the 4th place...
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Powerful middle heavyweight Bill March of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. March won the 4th place...
History in Color: September 17, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – 25-year rookie of Team CCCP, featherweight Eugene Katsura of Kazan, Russia wins a silver medal with a 110+107.5+140 = 357.5kg total in the 60kg class...
The History in Color series features a photo of legendary Soviet bantamweight Mitrofan Kosarev competing outdoors in Russia. Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat...
History in Color: July 22, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 20-year old middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria clean-and-jerks 190kg and becomes an Olympic champion with a 335kg total in the 75kg weight class at...
History in Color: November 23, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Best bantamweight athletes in the world gathered behind the stage during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Vladimir Stogov (USSR), Chuck Vinci...
Happy 70th Birthday to Mukharby Kirzhinov! Kirzhinov was an Olympic champion of 1972, World champion (1972, 1973), European champion (1973, 1974), USSR champion (1971, 1973-1975), champion of Spartakiada in 1971 and 1975. He set...
History in Color: Olympic weightlifting obviously doesn’t have anything to do with the snow. Right? No so fast… On the cover photo, Olympic champion of Helsinki (1952), legendary featherweight Rafael Chimishkyan is performing some...