Olympic Weightlifting: Celebrity Endorsement
It always starts light and easy. Can’t be said better than by Marilyn Monroe herself in the History in Color series.
It always starts light and easy. Can’t be said better than by Marilyn Monroe herself in the History in Color series.
History in Color: April 12, 1972, Tallinn, Estonia – Olympic champion, lightweight Peter Korol of Lvov, Ukraine sets a new world record (175kg cj) and wins a national title in the 67.5kg classat the...
Well, I did it… I joined the Facebook! I like it. I share my thoughts, my interests for whatever they are worth. One thing I don’t like so far… I don’t like these messages...
History in Color: September 27, 1947, Philadelphia, USA – Middleweight Sung-Jip Kim of Team Korea wins a bronze medal in the 75kg class at the 1947 World Championships in Philadelphia, PA. Sung-Jip Kim (1919-xxxx)...
History in Color: December 19, 1983, Leningrad, Russia – Alexander Gunyashev of Taganrog, Russia competes in the super heavyweight class at the 1983 USSR Cup in Leningrad. Alexandr Gunyashev won the 1983 USSR Cup...
The History in Color series features a color version view of conversation between two legends of Team USA, Bob Bednarski and Norb Schemansky at the weightlifting gym in Detroit. The original photo was published...
History in Color: September 20, 1962, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – 4x Olympian, legendary Jaakko Kajlajarvi of Team Finland sets a new world record in the snatch (146.5kg) and takes the 4th place in the light...
The cover photo from the History in Color series features Adam Saidullaev of Grozny, USSR, one of the best Soviet mid heavyweights of the late 1970s – early 1980s. Adam Saidullaev (b. 1956) competed...
History in Color: October 10, 1954, Vienna, Austria – 30-year old Olympic champion Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, USA wins the World title in the 90+kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships. It was...
History in Color: March 17, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – 23-year old mid heavyweight star of Team USSR, Sergey Poltoratsky performs a snatch lifting in the 90kg class at the 1970 Friendship Cup in Minsk....