Igor Sadykov
History in Color: Champion of the world and Europe , USSR champion, Igor Sadykov (b. 1967) of Usbekistan.
Category: Sports History
Dziedzic and Ozimek of Team Poland
History in color: Best Polish light heavyweight of the 1960s, Norbert Ozimek and his coach Augustyn Dziedzic are discussing the training session in the late 1960s.
The Champions of the 1967 Spartakiade
History in Color: The lineup of the winners of gold medals of the 1967 USSR Spartakiade. Left to right: Nikolay Nogaytsev (67.5kg, Dynamo, Moscow), Erkin Karimov (60kg, Burevestnik, Tashkent), Victor Kurentsov (75kg, Army, Khabarovsk),...
Zygmunt Smalcerz
History in color: One of all-time best bantamweights in the world, Zygmunt Smalcerz is training with the national Team Poland in the late 1960s.
Blagoev (Bulgaria)
History in Color: One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, Blagoy Blagoev competes for Bulgaria at the 1983 World Championship in Moscow. In 1983, Blagoev won the World title in the 90kg weight class with...
Team CCCP Weightlifting in Color
Another collectible issue of History in Color. This time it features our selected photos of Team CCCP Weightlifting in various seasons of the past.
Anniversary Posters: USSR Weightlifting Championships (1918-1991)
Here is a collector’s edition for the fans of Olympic weightlifting. This is the first batch of the posters I designed to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the first CCCP championship held in March 1918....
World Record By Pervushin
History in Color: March 5, 1972 – Soviet heavyweight star Pavel Pervushin of Leningrad snatches 171kg and sets the new world record in Ulm, Germany. Original b/w photo courtesy of Rolf Eberhard (Germany)
Also Known As Oddjob
History in Color: Harold Sakata of Team USA Weightlifting competes at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. For the most of the world, he is known as Oddjob from the Goldfinger (1964), one of...
