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On this cover History in Color photo, a crew of miners goes to work in Shakhty, Russia in the early 1970s. All of the miners are happy and in a great mood. No wonder,...
On this cover History in Color photo, a crew of miners goes to work in Shakhty, Russia in the early 1970s. All of the miners are happy and in a great mood. No wonder,...
History in Color: March 19, 1975, Zaporozhye, Ukraine – Legendary David Rigert of Team USSR and Shakhty, Russia sets a new world record (216kg clean-and-jerk) in the 90kg class at the 1975 Friendship Cup...
The History in Color series presents a group shot of the best heavyweights of Team USA in the 1950s. Actually, those were the best heavyweights not only of the USA but the whole world...
History in Color: October 28, 1951, Milan, Italy – Light heavyweight Jean Debuf of Team France competes in the 82.5kg class at the 1951 World Championships in Milan. Jean Debuf (1924-2010) was one of...
The black-and-white original for this History in Color photo of Olympic champion Jan Talts of Tallinn, Estonia was marked as “Jan Talts and friends in the restaurant in Tallinn. April 1968”. Not sure about...
History in Color: Olympic champion, legendary Ibrahim Shams and his coach Aziz Talaat in Alexandria, Egypt in 1948. Original Photo Courtesy of Robert Kabbas (Australia)
The History in Color series feature a color version of the photo with two important characters in the Team USA Weightlifting history – trainer Dick Smith and lifter Phil Grippaldi. We published a few...
History in Color: August 29, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – Team USA middleweight Tommy Kono just became a World champion in the 75kg class at the 1953 World Championships in Stockholm. His teammate and another...
History in Color Arpad Nemessanyi (b. 1944) was one of the distinguished athletes from the famous Hungarian “magnificent seven” group that brought Hungary to the top level in the weightlifting world in the 1960s....
The History in Color series presents a color version of the photos of Ruben Manukyan (1906-1978) of Yerevan Armenia, one of the most impressive Soviet weightlifters of the 1930s. Ruben Manukyan was a legendary...