Hans Bettembourg (Sweden)
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – Swedish middle heavyweight Hans Bettembourg performs a snatch lift in the 90kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He won a bronze Olympic...
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – Swedish middle heavyweight Hans Bettembourg performs a snatch lift in the 90kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He won a bronze Olympic...
History in Color: July 26, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 22-year old heavyweight Krastyu Semerdzhiev of Bulgaria competes in the 110kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Heavyweight champion of Bulgaria (1975), Krastyu...
History in Color: October 15, 1950, Paris, France – 35-year old heavyweight of Team CCCP Weightlifting, Yakov Kutsenko has been called to the competition platform for his next lift at the 1950 World Championships...
History in Color features Vladimir Stetilko, one of the most prominent Soviet weightlifters of the 1940s. Vladimir Svetilko (1915 – 1996) competed for the Army Club of Batumi, Georgia and the Dynamo Club of...
History in Color: March 16, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Brilliant flyweight of the 1970s, Gyorgy Koszegi of Hungary competed in the 52kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow. Gyorgy Koszegi (1950-2001) was...
History in Color: August 14, 1991, Donetsk, Ukraine – Ibragim Samadov of Team Russia competes in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1991 USSR Championships in Donetsk. The tournament in Donetsk was the last...
History in Color: Best of Scandinavian weightlifters of the late 1940s to early 1950s, 2x Olympians (1948, 1952), featherweights Johan Runge (1924-2005) of Denmark and Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) of Sweden.
History in Color: September 20, 1970, Columbus, OH, USA – Super heavyweight Kalevi Lahdenranta of Finland competes for the World title in the 110+kg class at the 1970 World Championships in Columbus. Kalevi Lahdenranta...
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – The medal ceremony is about to begin for the winners in the 90kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (left to right): Atanas...
History in Color: Valery Ustyuzhin (1945-2001) was a very strong heavyweight athlete of the 1970s. Ustyuzhin competed for the Dynamo Club of Rovno, Ukraine. His forte was his clean-and-jerk lift. In 1973, 28-year old...