Big Joy After a Big Win
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: 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...
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Olympic champion, 2x Olympic vice champion, captain of Team USA Weightlifting Peter George demonstrates a power snatch at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York....
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Athletes of Team USA Weightlifting seem to be happy, strong and confident before the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics in front of thousands of spectators at the...
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave Francis Scott Key … and should we add a humble but historically essential –...
This is a Happy 4th of July Olympic weightlifting style message! U.S. weightlifting has a long and impressive history of legendary teams, coaches and athletes. One of them was John Terpak (1912-1993) and, by...
History in Color brings memories about Viktor Solodov, outstanding Soviet middle heavyweight of the 1980s. Viktor Solodov (b.1962) of Kemerovo, Russia was a very powerful athlete of the 1980s. He competed for the Trud...