Grand Finale at the Summer Olympics in 1952
History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – On the last day the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, victorious team USA gathered on the stage for celebration (left to right): Front row: Richard...
Monthly Archive: February 2019
Olympic Heavyweight Champions (London, 1948)
History in Color: August 11, 1948, London, Great Britain – Olympic medal winners in the 82.5+ class at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London (left to right): Norbert Schemanky (USA, silver medal, 425kg), John...
Vaclav Psenicka Jr (Czechoslovakia)
History in Color: The cover photo of the History in Color series features one of the most distinguished Czech weightlifters of the 20th century Vaclav Psenicka Jr. (1931-2015). He was a 2x Olympian, who...
Kanybek Osmonaliev Becomes an Olympic Champion in 1980
History in Color: July 20, 1980, Moscow, Russia – Soviet flyweight Kanybek Osmonaliev of Frunze, Kirgizia wins a gold medal in the 52kg class at the 1980 Summer Olympics at the Izvaylovo Weightlifting Arena...
Athletes and Coaches: Dean Lukin and Leon Holme
October 19, 1985, Sydney, Australia – Olympic champion Dean Lukin and his coach Leon Holme are about ready to deliver another moment of joy and celebration for Australia at the 1985 Australian Weightlifting Championships...
Olympic Hopes of Bulgaria in Training
History in Color: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1968 – First year students of weightlifting class of Ivan Abadzhiev are perfoming a clean-and-jerk lift in training at the Youth Sports School in Sofia: Left to right: Boby...
Heavyweight Champions: 1979 USSR Spartakiade
History in Color: August 2, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Heavyweight medalists in the 110kg class of the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and 1979 USSR Championships in Leningrad (left to right): Sergey Arakelov (Spartak, Krasnodar, Russia,...
Arnold Luhaaar: Cutting-Edge Technicians From Estonia
On the History in Color photo, Arnold Luhaaar, outstanding Estonian heavyweight of the past, performs a clean-and-jerk lift. The interesting angle of this photo is that it takes place in the 1930s and Arnold...
Yury Chimrov (1956-2019)
Sad news just came from Ukraine… Yury Chimrov died on February 19, 2019. He was 63. RIP, Champion from the Dynamo Donetsk! Yury Chimrov was one of the young and promising Soviet heavyweights of...
Two Generations of Olympic Weightlifters From the Dynamo Club
History in Color: There are many photos like this in the personal photo archives of Olympic weightlifters – memories about being in the training camps, about being strong and young, about happy old days....
