Old Photo From Joe Dube
Joe Dube sent me this photo as a present a few years ago. The photo shows Team USA walking at the opening ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. A few days...
Joe Dube sent me this photo as a present a few years ago. The photo shows Team USA walking at the opening ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. A few days...
Famous Olympic weightlifter Yevgeny Sypko of Team CCCP and Kazakhstan died at 53 on January 16, 2017. Sypko became world known when he set up the national record at 216.5kg at the 1990 Friendship...
This digitally enhanced historical photo of the Team CCCP Weightlifting features the athletes selected to represent the country at the 1979World Championship in Saloniki, Greece. Top row (L-R): Igor Kudyukov (Head Coach), n/a, Kanybek...
Trofim Lomakin was perhaps one of the most memorable personalities among the Soviet Olympic weightlifters in the 1950s. Lomakin won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal...
Legendary Vasily Alexeev was impressive not only on the competition platform in the Olympic weightlifting. There are many accounts of eyewitnesses about his multi-disciplinary talent. He was great in playing volleyball and tennis, in shot...
Olympic champion and one of the legends of the York Barbell weightlifting team, Frank Isaac Spellman died at 94 on January 12, 2017. Frank Spellman competed for Team USA weightlifting in the late 1940s....
The moment captured here shows Soviet lightweight Victor Bushuev pressing 125kg at the weightlifting match between Team USA and Team USSR in 1958. These matches between the Soviet and American athletes in the mid...
This time the retro photo presentation brings us to the old weightlifting gym in Detroit, Michigan. It is August 1966 now and it is a home place for Norbert Schemansky, a living legend of Olympic...
Another group shot of Team CCCP weightlifting is showing the national team in the training camp in Crimea in 1981. This time, the photo session occasion was the visit of legendary dancer and artist...
Team CCCP Weightlifting is having a good time at the Volga River. It’s 1968 and they are 7,232 miles away from Mexico City where is a few weeks they will compete at the 1968...