Got Biceps? Phil Grippaldi Turned 75!
History in Color: September 27, 2021 – One of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s, 3x Olympian, Phil Grippaldi turned 75! Phil Grippaldi competed in the 90kg weight class...
History in Color: September 27, 2021 – One of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s, 3x Olympian, Phil Grippaldi turned 75! Phil Grippaldi competed in the 90kg weight class...
History in Color: December 16, 1979, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Zaytsev, heavyweight of Zenith Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, wins the 1979 USSR Cup with a 407.5kg (170+237.5) total in the 110kg weight class....
History in Color: June 25, 1968, Leningrad, USSR –26-year old super heavyweight Serge Reding of Belgium completes a 182.5kg press lift in the 90kg+ class at the 1968 European Championships in Leningrad. At the...
History in Color: August 1971, Travemunde, Germany – German heavyweight Gunther Wu of SV Phoenix Kassel and Soviet flyweight Adam Gnatov of Lokomotiv Lvov are flexing muscles during the 1971 Baltic Cup tournament in...
History in Color: October 4, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – 33-year old heavyweight Ivan Veselinov competes for Team Bulgaria in the 90+kg weight class at the 1959 World and European Championships in Warsaw. By the...
History in Color: December 12, 1980, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, USSR – Rookie junior Yury Zakharevich of Dimitrovgrad, Russia wins a national title in the snatch lift on his way to become a 1980 USSR Cup...
History in Color: May 2, 1980, Beograd, Yugoslavia – 33-year old weightlifting super star, Olympic champion David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia snatches 181kg in the 4th attempt and sets a new world record in...
On the History in Color photo, weightlifting legend Chen Jingkai (1935-2010) of China is performing a snatch lift at the tournament in 1950s. Legendary Chen competed in the bantam and featherweight and set 9...
History in Color: August 2, 1979, Leningrad, Russia, USSR – 23-year old heavyweight Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus performs a snatch lift in the 110kg weight class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and USSR...
July 30, 2021 – One of the most impressive weightlifters of the 1970s, World and European champion, world records holder, Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia celebrates his 75th Birthday today. Ivanchenko’s list of sports...