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History in Color: March 10, 1961, Moscow, Russia – 30-year old light heavyweight Tommy Kono of the United States competed in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow International tournament in...
History in Color: August 1, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Club (Moscow, Russia) is competing in the clean-and-jerk program in the 110+kg class at the 1983...
History in Color: July 26, 1978, Edmonton, Canada – Australian athletes are training in the weightlifting hall in Edmonton before the beginning of the 1978 Commonwealth Games (left to right): Charlie Quagliata (82.5kg, silver...
The History in Color series of the Lift Up project presents our version of the portrait of Wilhelm Türk (1857-1920) of Austria-Hungary who won the 1898 World Championship in Vienna, Austria. Different weightlifting history...
History in Color: Summer 1976, Estonia – World records holder and national heavyweight champion, 30-year old Karl Utsar of Estonia is performing a snatch lift outdoors during a big farmers’ event in Estonia. Karl...
Just received a very sad note from the family of Olympic weightlifting legend Norbert Schemansky (1924-2016). Norbert’s only son Larry passed away yesterday morning at 64. My most sincere condolences go the Schemansky family....
History in Color: April 26, 1974, Tbilisi, Georgia –Legendary super heavyweight, 2x Olympic champion Leonid Zhabotinsky congratulates 22-year old middleweight Alexander Galkin with a silver medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1974...
History in Color: October 14, 1955, Munich, Germany – Weightlifting middleweight champions Fedor Bogdanovsky (left) of Leningrad, USSR and Peter George of Akron, OH, USA are receiving their medals and awards after competing in...
History in Color: May 16, 1951, Kaunas, Lithuania –National champions in Olympic weightlifting are being announced at the closing ceremony of the 1951 USSR Championships held at the Sports Palace in Kaunas (left to...
History in Color: October 15, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – 18-year old lightweight Mohamed Traboulsi of Lebanon set a new world record in snatch (121.5kg – WR JR) while competing in the 67.5kg class...
Team Australia: Training in Edmonton (1978)
20 Apr, 2019
Wilhelm Turk: World Champion (1898)
20 Apr, 2019
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
