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History in Color: One of the early training camps of Team USSR in Sukhumi before the 1957 Euripean Championships in Katowice (right to left): R.Chimishkyan (60kg), A.Vorobyev (90kg), Ya.Kutsenko (head coach), A.Medvedev (90+kg), F.Bogdanovsky...
History in Color: September 20, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – Zygmunt Smalcerz of Team Poland makes his debut for the national weightlifting team in the 52kg weight class at the 1969 World Championships in Warsaw....
History in Color: October 23, 1938, Vienna, Austria – Joseph Manger of Germany wins a gold medal in the 82.5+kg weight class and Steve Stanko of Team USA becomes a silver medalist at the...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, Paul Anderson of Team USA receives the highest trophy in Olympic weightlifting, the gold Olympic medal...
History in Color: One of the best super heavyweights in the world in the early 1980s, Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia is about to begin his snatch lift. His coach Mikhail Akopyants is watching...
History in Color: Team Finland Weightlifting goes all the way to the East to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (top to bottom): Pentti Anttila, Eino Makinen (90+kg), Jouni Kailajarvi (90kg), Jaakko...
History in Color: The second Olympic Team Bulgaria assembled by legendary coach Ivan Abadzhiev is ready to go to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada (left to right): Atanas Shopov (90kg), Blagoy Blagoev...
History in Color: October 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Swedish Olympian and one of the top contenders in the 90kg weightlifting competition, Bo Valdemar Johansson has arrived to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color cover photo features three top stars of Polish Olympic weightlifting (left to right): Marian Zielinski (1929-2005, 60/67.5kg); Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006, 82.5/90kg); Waldemar Baszanowski (1935-2011, 67.5/75kg) Polish weightlifting produced many world famaous...
History in Color: March 5, 1982, Frunze, Kirgizia – 1980 Olympic champion Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus competes in the clean-and-jerk program of the heavyweight class at the 1982 Friendship Cup in Frunze. As...