Karoly Bakos (Hungary)
On the cover photo from the History in Color series, one of all-time best Hungarian weightlifters Karoly Bakos of Budapest, Hungary performs a split-style snatch lift. Karoly Bakos (b. 1943) was one of the...
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Sergey Poltoratsky (USSR)
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – At the 1970 USSR Championships, 23-year old middle heavyweight Sergey Poltoratsky of the Daugava Club, Riga, Latvia wins a silver medal in the 90kg class...
Doug Hepburn (Canada)
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Legendary Canadian heavyweight Douglas Hepburn wins the 90+kg class of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at the Exhibition Gardens, Pacific National Exhibition in...
Charles Darwin, John Grimek and Marquis the Chimpanzee in London
History in Color: Legendary bodybuilder and Olympic weightlifter John Grimek of the York Barbell is flexing muscles with Marquis the Chimpanzee at the London Palladium in the late 1940s. Just out of curiosity, was Marquis...
Viktor Bushuev in Rome (1960)
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Soviet lightweight Viktor Bushuev of Gorky, Russia wins the gold in the 67.5kg class with the 397.5kg world record total at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
Ireneusz Palinski: Training Feats in Poland
On History in Color photo, Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2009), the first Olympic champion of Team Poland and, by all means, one of the best middle heavyweights in the history of Polish and world weightlifting of...
40 Years Ago: Robert Kabbas (Australia) Wins the Commonwealth Games in Canada
History in Color: August 6, 1978, Edmonton, Canada – 23-year old light heavyweight Robert Kabbas of Team Australia wins a gold medal in the 82.5kg class at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. It...
Birds of July: American Golden and House Finches
From the Birds Photography series at Chidlovski Blog Chidlovski.
Closing Ceremony: USSR Championships (1946)
History in Color: June 17, 1946, Riga, Latvia – Introduction of the champions of the 1946 USSR Championships at the State Circus Arena in Riga. This was the first post-WWII national championship in the...
