Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles
History in Color: July 1984, Los Angeles, CA, USA – 29-year old light heavyweight Robert Kabbas of Team Australia is performing a snatch lift in the training hall before the beginning of the weightlifting...
History in Color: July 1984, Los Angeles, CA, USA – 29-year old light heavyweight Robert Kabbas of Team Australia is performing a snatch lift in the training hall before the beginning of the weightlifting...
History in Color: September 19, 1958, Stockholm, Sweden – Fedor Bogdanovsky, 28-year old middleweight of Leningrad, Russia performs a split-style snatch in the 75kg class at the 1958 World and European Championships in Stockholm....
History in Color: March 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov greets the strongest heavyweights after the end of the 90+kg weight class competition at the 1961 Prize of Moscow invitational tournament...
History in Color: August 31, 1972, Munich, Germany – Best middleweights receive their awards at the medal ceremony in the 75kg weight class at the 1972 Summer Olympics (left to right): Mohamed Traboulsi (Lebanon,...
History in Color: April 22, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR – Middleweight legend, Olympic champion, 5x World champion, 7x European champion, 9x USSR champion, Viktor Kurentsov competes for the Soviet Army Club of Khabarovsk, Russia...
History in Color : June 1955 –American Olympic weightlifting team is about to take off on a plane to Russia for the USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet to be held in Moscow and...
History in Color: October 8, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Olympic champion Rafael Chimishkyan of Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR wins both World and European titles in the 60kg weight class at the 1954 World and European...
History in Color: July 25, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Best middle heavyweights receive their awards at the medal ceremony in the 90kg weight class and salute to Montreal, the city that hosted the 1976...
January 9, 2020 – Legend of Czech weightlifting, Karel Saitl died in Czech Republic. He was 95. Karel Saitl was an outstanding Czech lifter. He competed for Team Czechoslovakia at two Summer Olympics, won...
History in Color: April 25, 1978, Kiev, Ukraine – 20-year old junior weightlifter Anatoly Pisarenko competes for the Dynamo Club at the 1978 USSR Championships held at the Sports Palace in his hometown. In...