Geza Toth of Hungary
The History in Color series features Geza Toth of Hungary, one of the best Olympic weightlifters in the world in the 1960s. Geza Toth (1932-2011) was a part of so-called “Magnificent Seven” group of...
The History in Color series features Geza Toth of Hungary, one of the best Olympic weightlifters in the world in the 1960s. Geza Toth (1932-2011) was a part of so-called “Magnificent Seven” group of...
History in Color: One of the most impressive and exciting to watch athletes in the 1970s, Valentin Khristov of Bulgaria performs a snatch in Podolsk, Russia (1971).
History in Color: March 17, 1978, Moscow, Russia – Sergey Pevzner of Rostov, Russia sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (178kg) in the lightweight at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow.
3:1? It ain’t some soccer game scoreboard. Just a counter for the athletes’ country representation on the History in Color cover photo (left to right): Yevgeny Popov (Bulgaria, 110+kg), Georgi Todorov (Bulgaria, 60kg), Aslanbek...
History in Color: Vladimir Kuznetsov, middleweight of Spartak Krasnodar is about to begin a clean-and-jerk lift at the 1989 USSR Championships in Frunze, Kirgizia. Vladimir Kuznetsov (b. 1963) was one of the brightest Soviet...
History in Color: February 26, 1972, Riga, Latvia – Valery Yakubovsky of Moscow Dynamo sets a new Olympic press world record (206.5kg) in the 110kg weight class at the National Dynamo Championship in Riga....
History in Color: The Olympians of Team CCCP are getting ready for the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Rome (1960). The national flag will be carried by legendary Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov....
History in Color: Gennady Ivanchenko (b. 1946) of the Dinamo Club in Riga, Latvia World and European Champion, USSR Champion, author of many world records and the first light heavyweight in the world that...
History in Color: Soviet weightlifting stars of the first post World War II decades (right to left): Yury Duganov, Rafael Chimiskyan, Grigory Novak, Alesha Chilingarov, N/A All of them definitely deserve their own chapter...
History in Color: One of the best featherweights in the world in the 1970s, graduate of the famous weightlifting school in Shakhty, Russia, Nikolay Kolesnikov competes at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow. A...