Remembering Chuck Vinci: Weightlifting Match in 1958
History in Color: May 1958, Chicago IL – One of the best bantamweight athletes in the world, Chuck Vinci competes for Team USA at the 1958 USA vs. USSR weightlifting series in Chicago.
History in Color: May 1958, Chicago IL – One of the best bantamweight athletes in the world, Chuck Vinci competes for Team USA at the 1958 USA vs. USSR weightlifting series in Chicago.
History in Color: November 23, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Charles Vinci, of York, Pennsylvania displays his Olympic Gold medal after winning the bantamweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. That was the...
History in Color: November 23, 1956, Melbourn, Australia – Bantamweight Chuck Vinci of Team USA is being surrounded by the support team during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right:) Peter George...
History in Color: March 6, 1985, Yerevan, Armenia – 17-year old high school student Sevdalin Marinov of Plovdiv, Bulgaria wins the second place in the 52kg weight class at the 1985 Friendship Cup in...
Very sad news came from Cleveland, OH. Chuck Vinci died on June 13, 2018 at 85. Vinci was a two-time Olympic champion in weightlifting. He won the bantamweight class at the 1956 Games in...
October 22, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 19-year old flyweight Neno Terziyski of Team Bulgaria wins his first World title with a world record total of 260kg at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Neno...
History in Color series features one of the key athletes of the early period in the history of Olympic weightlifting in the Soviet Union, light heavyweight Alexander Bozhko (1915-1977) while he is performing a...
Einar Ericsson (1921-2009, seen on the History in Color cover) was one of the most distinguished Olympic weightlifters of Sweden in the 20th century. He competed in the featherweight and represented his country at...
History in Color features a member of the international 500 Club and a world record holder, remarkable heavyweight Frank Capsouras of Team USA Weightlifting. Frank Capsouras (b. 1947) is a native of Hackensack, NJ...
History in Color: September 24, 1977, Stutthart, Germany – Michel Broillet of Switzerland competes in the 100kg weight class at the 1977 World and European Championships in Stuttgart. Michel Broillet (b. 1944) was one...