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History in Color Series: One of the first appearances of Vasily Alexeev on the top level national competitions. Future super heavyweight megastar is appearing here with the unusual for Alexeev beard and mustache. He...
History in Color Series: One of the first appearances of Vasily Alexeev on the top level national competitions. Future super heavyweight megastar is appearing here with the unusual for Alexeev beard and mustache. He...
History in Color: A group of athletes of the 82.5kg class during the intro for the 1978 USSR Championship in Kiev. Valery Shary (not shown on the picture) of Army Minsk took the first...
History in Color Series: One of the Olympic weightlifting greatest Norbert Schemansky of Team U.S.A. is competing at the 1963 Prize of Moscow International. The original photo by Jacob Gimmelstein. This photo has an...
History in Color: Phil Grippaldi (b. 1946) was one of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s. He competed in the 90kg weight class and had an impressive look of...
History in Color: Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat Kosarev when he competed. He won the USSR championship in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944,...
Thank you so much for the colorized photos of so many Soviet lifters. Many of these were before I got interested in lifting but many were also lifters who never got to compete outside...
History in Color Series: October 21, 1964 (Tokyo, Japan) – In his last attempt at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Olympic champion Yury Vlasov goes for 217.5kg in the clean-and-jerk. It’s a world record at the...
Those who like Louis de Funès and French comedy of the past might get a smile here. Anyway, it’s good to be handy 🙂
History in Color: Life consists of the flow of ups and downs. This one is definitely was a “big down” for legendary David Rigert. On the enchanced cover photo, David Rigert bombs out in the...