Jan-Olov Nolsjo (Sweden) Turns 70!
One of Team Sweden Weightlifting greats Jan-Olov Nolsjo celebrates his 70th birthday today. As we get older and wiser, we realize that some of the bigger birthday numbers might become a joy and a...
One of Team Sweden Weightlifting greats Jan-Olov Nolsjo celebrates his 70th birthday today. As we get older and wiser, we realize that some of the bigger birthday numbers might become a joy and a...
History in Color: March 1970, Minsk, Belarus – Winners of the 110kg class competition and the spectators in the arena listen to the USSR national anthem at the medal ceremony of the 1970 Friendship...
History in Color: 2x Olympic vice champion, champion of the World, Europe and USSR, Dito Shanidze of the Gantiadi Club, Tbilisi is competing at the local meet in his native Georgia. Dito Shanidze (1937-2010)...
History in Color: August 2, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Heavyweight Valery Kuznichenko of Brovary, Ukraine performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110kg class at the 1979 USSR Championships / 7th USSR Spartakiade in Leningrad....
History in Color: October 23, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 33-year old featheweight Uolevi Kahelin of Team Finland competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Uolevi Kahelin (b. 1950)...
History in Color: March 18, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – Olympic champion Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Finland wins the 90kg competition at the 1970 Friendship Cup in Minsk. 3x Finnish Olympian and author of 17 records,...
History in Color: October 22, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Arvo Ojalehto of Team Finland competes in the 52kg weight class at the 1983 World Championships in Moscow. Arvo Ojalehto (b. 1957) is a 3x...
History in Color: June 1955, Alexandria, Egypt – Legendary super heavyweight Paul Anderson of Team USA is lifting in Egypt during the historical 1955 Team USA Weightlifting Tour to USSR, Egypt and Iran. In...
The History in Color cover features one of all-time best Olympic weightlifter Zygmunt Smalcerz of Poland competing in a national tournament in the 1970s. To me, Smalcerz is a truly class act of Olympic...
History in Color: March 1974, Yerevan, Armenia – Legendary Soviet heavyweight Jaan Talts of Tallinn, Estonia competes in the 110kg class at the 1974 Friendship Cup in Yerevan. With Pavel Pervushin out due to...