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History in Color: Alexandria, Egypt, 1950s – Olympic champion, 2x World champion, world records holder Ibrahim Hassan Shams of Team Egypt is training at the famous Kabbas Gym in Alexandria. Gabriel Kabbas watches the...
History in Color: July 27, 1980, Moscow, Russia – In order to win a gold Olympic medal, 20-year old middleweight Rumen Alexandrov of Bulgaria tries to clean-and-jerk 210kg in the 90kg class at the...
History in Color: If you are a weightlifter, you want to lift everything everywhere you can. On the cover photo, the strongest man in the world of the 1970s, super heavyweight legend Vasily Alexeev...
History in Color: September 9, 1948, London, Great Britain – 23-year old featherweight Mahmoud Fayad of Team Egypt wins the 60kg class with a 332.5kg world record total at the 1948 Summer Olympics in...
History in Color: July 12, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Soviet bantamweight Ivan Udodov of Rostov, Russia wins a gold Olympic medal in the 56kg weight class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. This...
History in Color: October 18, 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Middle heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Team Finland celebrates after winning gold Olympic medal in the 90kg class at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color features a color version of a clean-and-jerk lift by a legendary featherweight Rafael Chimishkyan (CCCP). Rafael Chimishkyan (b. 1929) competed in the 60kg class for Tbilisi, Georgia. Chimiskyan was the second...
History in Color: Waldemar Baszanowski (1935-2011) was a legendary lifter from Poland. He is one of the greatest weightlifters of all time and nations. As a member of Polish national team, he took part...
History in Color: Vladimir Starostenko (1942-2010) competed in the heavyweight class for the Burevestnik Club of Moscow, Russia. He authored a 194kg world record in the press lift in 1969 and won a silver...
History in Color features Bulgarian super heavyweight of late 1960s-early 1970s Dimitar Tramburdzhiev. Dimitar Tramburdzhiev (b. 1948) of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria was one of the candidates to the super heavyweight position with Team Bulgaria in...
… And the World Title Goes to Gennady Ivanchenko!
13 Dec, 2018
Yury Yablonovsky: Record of the Union (1968)
11 Dec, 2018
Imre Foldi: World Record in Budapest (1965)
10 Dec, 2018
Ciro Ibanez (Cuba): Going Heavy in Havana, 1984
7 Dec, 2018
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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