Teammates CCCP Weightlifting, 1970s
The black-and-white original of this History in Color photo went viral on the web with the whole bunch of other funny pictures that make people laugh. It didn’t have a description – just a...
The black-and-white original of this History in Color photo went viral on the web with the whole bunch of other funny pictures that make people laugh. It didn’t have a description – just a...
October 26, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Romanian middleweight Dragomir Cioroslan competes at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Dragomir Cioroslan (b. 1954) was a 3x Olympian of Team Romania. He represented his country in...
History in Color: September 30, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – Featherweight Marian Zielinski of Poland wins the 60kg weight class at the 1959 World Championships in Warsaw. Marian Zielinski (1929-2005) was one of the best...
History in Color features participants of the early weightlifting matches between Team Sweden and Team Finland back in the 1940s. Legendary Finnish heavyweight, 4x Olympian Eino Makinen is on the left. His Swedish counterpart...
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach A.Prilepin, June 19 1981) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: G. Baldin (massage therapist), V. Mazin (60kg, Shakhtinsk, Kazakhstan), Viktor Sots (100kg,...
History in Color: Mincho Pashov (b. 1961) of Plovdiv, Bulgaria is an outstanding international athlete of the 1980s produced by Ivan Abadzhiev and Team Bulgaria. Pashov is a Bulgarian Olympian. He took a bronze...
The title certainly ain’t a set-up for an anecdote line or something… History in Color: September 26, 1974, Manila, Philippines – Trendafil Stoychev of Team Bulgaria wins the 82.5kg weight class with 350kg total...
History in Color features one of Swedish weightlifting greats Jan-Olov Nolsjo. Jan-Olov Nolsjo (b. 1948) represented Sweden at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He competed in the 110+kg weight class and took the...
History in Color: July 22, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria is on his way to a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: Legendary Paul Anderson performs demo weightlifting with Team USA in the Madison Square Garden in December 1955. Team USA captain Peter George is a spotter in the back. I don’t know...