Legendary Yanko Rusev Turns 60
December 1, 2018 – One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, legendary Yanko Rusev of Bulgaria celebrates his 60th Birthtday! Congrats to the Champion! Yanko Rusev (born 1958) was a 5x World champion, an Olympic...
December 1, 2018 – One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, legendary Yanko Rusev of Bulgaria celebrates his 60th Birthtday! Congrats to the Champion! Yanko Rusev (born 1958) was a 5x World champion, an Olympic...
History in Color: July 21, 1971, Moscow, Russia –23-year old light heavyweight Vladimir Ryzhenkov of the Dynamo Mocow club is competing in the 82.5kg classat the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at the...
History in Color: December 1955, New York City, NY, USA – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, U.S. heavyweight Paul Anderson is in the spotlight during the U.S. fundraiser for the...
History in Color: February 28, 1963, Budapest, Hungary – 19-year student and junior middleweight Karoly Bakos of Budapest, Hungary sets a new junior world record (120.5kg snatch) in the 75kg class. This was the...
History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 33-year old bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of Paterson, NJ, USA wins the World title and sets new world records in press (102.5kg), snatch (87.5kg)...
History in Color: August 1, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 23-year old super heavyweight Victor Mosibit competes for Team Uzbekistan in the 110+kg weight class at the 1983 USSR Championships and 1983 USSR Spartakiade held...
History in Color: September 1981, Moscow, Russia – Team USSR Weightlifting is ready to depart for the 1981 World Championships in Lille, France (left to right): Semyon Itkin (coach), Oleg Pisarevsky (coach), Yury Zakharevich...
History in Color: July 18, 1986, Moscow, Russia – 35-year old heavyweight Anton Baraniak of Team Czechoslovakia wins a silver medal with a 407.5kg (182.5+225) total in the 110kg class at the 1986 Good...
History in Color: December 1984, Yerevan, Armenia – 16-year old winner of the 1984 USSR Cup in the featherweight, Israel Militosyan and his uncle and coach, Olympic vice champion Vartan Militosyan are jogging on...
The History in Color series features a color version of the group shot of U.S. medalists of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The original black-and-whire photo was taken in the Roman Olympic village...