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History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – One of the best heavyweights in the world of the 1950s, Humberto Selvetti of Argentina competes in the 90+kg class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in...
History in Color: October 25, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion, legendary Yanko Rusev of Team Bulgaria competes in a clean-and-jerk program in the 67.5kg class at the 1983 World Championships at the Izmaylovo...
History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Olympic medal winners in the 75kg weight class of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (left to right): Gerry Gratton (Canada,...
The original for the cover History in Color photo was a black-and-white from the photo archives of a legendary bantamweight of the 1950s Ivan Udodov (left to right): Arkady Vorobyev of Yekaterinburg, Russia, Ivan...
This was the first post-WWII national championship in the USSR. Most of the champions were World War 2 veterans. Many of the champions didn’t win the titles after the war because they never came...
Remembering the Great Victory Day in 1945… Many of them never came back from the war. Many of them are no longer around. The world is a different place today. New generations. New thoughts....
Happy Birthday to the Legend! Alexander Varbanov (b. 1964) was perhaps one of the strongest middleweights of all times. His personal best was the total of 382.5kg (167.5+215, bodyweight 74.6kg) that was reached on...
Note: May 8, 2019 – Plamen Asparukhov of Bulgaria celebrates his 59th birthday. Happy Birthday, Champion! History in Color: November 10, 1979, Thessaloniki, Greece – 19-year old sub heavyweight Plamen Asparukhov of Pernik, Bulgaria...
Our History in Color series features a color version of the photo of a young and promising Czech weightlifter Ota Zaremba quiet a few years before his phenomenal success in the late 1970s. In...
History in Color: December 7, 1975, Montreal, Canada – Legendary Soviet super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev sets a new clean-and-jerk world record of 247.5kg at the 1975 CIM (Championnats International de Montréal) held prior to...
David Rigert: 1975 USSR Spartakiade in Vilnius
5 Jul, 2020
Mladen Kuchev (Bulgaria): Ulm International in 1972
27 Jun, 2020
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
