Happy 65th Birthday to Dragomir Cioroslan (Romania, USA)!
May 15, 2019 – Happy 65th Birthday to Dragomir Cioroslan (Romania, USA), world class athlete, coach and executive
Monthly Archive: May 2019
Happy Birthday to Norik Vardanyan!
May 15, 2019 – Happy 32nd Birthday to Norik Vardanyan of Team USA and Armenia!
Happy 50th Birthday to Albert Nasibulin!
Happy 50th Birthday to one of the last of the Mohicans who competed for the legendary Team USSR Weightlifting turns 50 today! С 50-летием!
Humberto Selvetti (Argentina): Melbourne, 1956
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – One of the best heavyweights in the world of the 1950s, Humberto Selvetti of Argentina competes in the 90+kg class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in...
Yanko Rusev (Bulgaria): 1983 World Championships in Moscow
History in Color: October 25, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion, legendary Yanko Rusev of Team Bulgaria competes in a clean-and-jerk program in the 67.5kg class at the 1983 World Championships at the Izmaylovo...
1952 Olympics: Weightlifting Middleweight Champions
History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Olympic medal winners in the 75kg weight class of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (left to right): Gerry Gratton (Canada,...
Born in 1924: Thinking About the Champions of the War Generation
The original for the cover History in Color photo was a black-and-white from the photo archives of a legendary bantamweight of the 1950s Ivan Udodov (left to right): Arkady Vorobyev of Yekaterinburg, Russia, Ivan...
One Year After the Big War: Weightlifting Champions in 1946
This was the first post-WWII national championship in the USSR. Most of the champions were World War 2 veterans. Many of the champions didn’t win the titles after the war because they never came...
May 9 – Remembering the Great Victory Day in 1945
Remembering the Great Victory Day in 1945… Many of them never came back from the war. Many of them are no longer around. The world is a different place today. New generations. New thoughts....
Alexander Varbanov (Bulgaria) Turns 55
Happy Birthday to the Legend! Alexander Varbanov (b. 1964) was perhaps one of the strongest middleweights of all times. His personal best was the total of 382.5kg (167.5+215, bodyweight 74.6kg) that was reached on...
