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History in Color: October 10, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, USA wins the World title in the 90+kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships. Norbert Schemansky was 30 at the...
History in Color: July 22, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria is on his way to a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: Legendary Paul Anderson performs demo weightlifting with Team USA in the Madison Square Garden in December 1955. Team USA captain Peter George is a spotter in the back. I don’t know...
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – Swedish middle heavyweight Hans Bettembourg performs a snatch lift in the 90kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He won a bronze Olympic...
History in Color: July 26, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 22-year old heavyweight Krastyu Semerdzhiev of Bulgaria competes in the 110kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Heavyweight champion of Bulgaria (1975), Krastyu...
October 15, 1950, Paris, France – 35-year old heavyweight of Team CCCP Weightlifting, Yakov Kutsenko has been called to the competition platform for his next lift at the 1950 World Championships in Paris. Other...
History in Color features Vladimir Stetilko, one of the most prominent Soviet weightlifters of the 1940s. Vladimir Svetilko (1915 – 1996) competed for the Army Club of Batumi, Georgia and the Dynamo Club of...
History in Color: March 16, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Brilliant flyweight of the 1970s, Gyorgy Koszegi of Hungary competed in the 52kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow. Gyorgy Koszegi (1950-2001) was...
History in Color: August 14, 1991, Donetsk, Ukraine – Ibragim Samadov of Team Russia competes in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1991 USSR Championships in Donetsk. The tournament in Donetsk was the last...
History in Color: Best of Scandinavian weightlifters of the late 1940s to early 1950s, 2x Olympians (1948, 1952), featherweights Johan Runge (1924-2005) of Denmark and Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) of Sweden.
25 Jun, 2018
Norbert Schemansky Wins a World Title in Vienna
24 Jun, 2018
24 Jun, 2018
Miracle of Nature in the Madison Square Garden
24 Jun, 2018
24 Jun, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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