World Record By Bob Bednarski (USA)
September 27, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – 25-year old Bob Bednarski of USA sets a new world record in snatch in the heavyweight class at the 1969 World Championship in Warsaw. We already featured legendary...
September 27, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – 25-year old Bob Bednarski of USA sets a new world record in snatch in the heavyweight class at the 1969 World Championship in Warsaw. We already featured legendary...
Selected members of legendary 1972 Team Canada (click the cover photo to enlarge ) arrived to Russia for the celebration the 45th Anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series in Russia. The slide shows combines...
On the “History in Color” cover photo, Soviet lightweight champion Dmitry Ivanov performs a split style snatch in the training hall in the early 1950s. Dmitry Ivanov (1928-1993) was one of the most known...
In this “History in Cover” issue, we feature a photo of legendary John Grimek performing one of the strength feat of the time – tearing apart a Chicago telephone book. John Grimek (1910-1998) was a...
December 15, 1983, Leningrad, Russia – Vladimir Grachev of Tver, Russia snatches the new world record (155kg) in the lightweight at the 1983 CCCP Cup. Grachev was 22 and it was his second world...
History in Color: Team Czechoslovakia Karel Prohl (born in 1947) is a outstanding Czech weightlifter, great athlete, coach, journalist, historian and official of the Czech Weightlifting Union. In many ways, Prohl is...
On the cover History in Color photo, one of the best U.S. super heavyweights of all times. Joe Dube of Florida competes at the 1970 AAU Senior Nationals in Culver City, CA. History in...