Atanas Shopov (Bulgaria): Munich, 1972
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – 20-year old middle heavyweight Atanas Shopov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria performs a snatch lift on his way to a silver Olympic medal in the 90kg class...
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – 20-year old middle heavyweight Atanas Shopov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria performs a snatch lift on his way to a silver Olympic medal in the 90kg class...
History in Color: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1977 – 19-year old Victor Sots of Donetsk, Ukraine competes for Team USSR in the clean-and-jerk program in the 90kg class at the 1977 Junior European Championships in Sofia....
History in Color: July 26, 1956, Helsinki, Finland – Legendary Peter George of Team USA completes his 150kg opener in the clean-and-jerk program on his way to the gold medal in the 75kg class...
History in Color: November 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Weightlifters of Team Canada are ready to compete at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Charles Walker (Team manager), Jules Sylvain (featherweight, 9th...
History in Color: April 6, 1976, East Berlin, GDR – Outstanding Polish lightweight Zbigniew Kaczmarek sets a new snatch world record (139.5kg) in the 67.5kg class at the 1976 European Championships in East Berlin....
The History in Color series features lightweight Kazimierz Czarnecki training with Team Poland for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Kazimierz Czarnecki (born in 1948) was a distinguished Olympian and a world record holder of Team...
This time the History in Color series brings us to the old weightlifting gym in Detroit, Michigan. It is August 1966 now and it is a home place for Norbert Schemansky, a living legend...
History in Color: Arnold Khalfin (born in 1929) was one of the best Soviet bantam and flyweights of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He competed mostly for the Spartak club of Lvov, Ukraine...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Soviet lightweight Viktor Bushuev of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Russia wins the gold in the 67.5kg class with the 397.5kg world record total at the 1960...
History in Color: Jan Wojnowski (1946-1990) was a 2x Olympian of Team Poland. He represented Poland in the featherweight at Summer Olympics in Mexico City (1968) and Munich (1972). He took the 4th place...