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History in Color: Team USA Weightlifting is ready for the 1969 World Championships in Warsaw, Poland (left to right): Frank Capsouras (90kg, 6th place), Gary Deal (110kg, 4th place), Phil Grippaldi (90kg, 5th place),...
History in Color: Atanas Shopov competes for Bulgaria at one of the Olympic weightlifting international tournaments. Atanas Shopov (b. 1951) was a member of the first Bulgarian teams assembled by legendary coach Ivan Abadzhiev....
History in Color: Group shot Team USSR 1990 (head coach Vasily Alexeev) in the training camp in Feodosia: Front row: A.Popov, x, x, A.Azizov, x, A.Еdiev, x, M.Sedaev, R.Musaev, Akoev (coach), S.Lее; 2nd row:...
History in Color: Legendary American weightlifter Lee James competes in the 90kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow, Russia. It was one of the last appearances of Lee James of Team USA...
November 15, 1986, Sofia, Bulgaria – Bulgarian weightlifing team just finished competing in the 1986 World Championships with a phenomenal team record. They won 7 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in 10...
September 17, 1975, Moscow – Featherweight Georgi Todorov of Bulgaria wins his 2nd world title with a world record total of 285kg (125+160) at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. Georgi Todorov was one...
October 19, 1946, Paris, France – Grigory Novak of Team CCCP Weightlifting wins the world title in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1946 World Championship in France and becomes the 1st ever Soviet...
October 19, 1968, Mexico City – 24-year old super heavyweight Joe Dube of Team USA competes in the snatch part of Olympic weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. Joe had...
History in Color: Champions of the 1956 Summer Olympics Paul Anderson (USA, left) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake behind the scenes of the Olympics in Melbourne. Head coach of Team USSR...
History in Color: The cover photo features two strongest Soviet light heavyweights in 1970 – Gennady Ivanchenko (left) of Riga, Latvia and David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia. Both are definitely familiar to the Iron...
Anatoly Khrapaty (USSR and Kazakhstan)
19 Aug, 2018
19 Aug, 2018
Team USA: Olympic Champions of Helsinki
19 Aug, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
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