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History in Color: July 30, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Olympic weiightlifting legend Yurik Vardanyan of Team USSR and Leninakan, Armenia competes in a snatch lift program in the 82.5kg class at the 1979 USSR...
History in Color: March 18, 1984, Minsk, Belarus – Olympic champion Leonid Taranenko, Team USSR heavyweight from Minsk, Belarus, performs a snatch lift in the 110kg class at the 1984 USSR Championships in Minsk....
History in Color: June 23, 1968, Leningrad, Russia – Soviet light heavyweight Boris Selitsky of Leningrad, Russia prepares for the lift in the 82.5kg class at the 1968 European Championships in Leningrad. 29-year old...
September 18, 2018 – Great Iranian featherweight Mohammad Jafar Salmasi would have celebrated his 100th birthday! Jafar Salmasi (1918-2000) was a decorated Iranian Olympian who won a bronze medal in the 60kg class at...
September 22, 2018 – One of the greatest weightlifters of the 1950, Mahmoud Namjou (Iran, 1918-1989) would have been 100 years old today, Happy Birthday Anniversary to the great champion! History in Color: July...
Boris Selitsky, Olympic champion, World and European champion, USSR National and USSR Spartakiade champion, winner of the USSR Cup and world records holder of St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia turned 80 today! On behalf of...
History in Color: July 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Members of Olympic Team USA Weightlifting, 23-year old middleweight Peter George and 22-year old lightweightTommy Kono are performing some fun on-camera bodybuilding posing before the beginning...
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – One of the best Soviet heavyweights of the early 1970s, Valery Yakubovsky of Dynamo, Moscow sets a new Olympic press record (195kg) in the 110kg...
Northern Cardinal are very peculiar fellas. Most birds are early birds. They come to see us real early. And leaver early too. Cardinals are completely opposite. They come and leave much later than the...
September 20, 2018 – Happy Birthday to Jan Bochenek (Poland, 1931-2011)! One of the best Polish weightlifters would have been 87 today… The History in Color presents a color version of the photo of...
Louis Martin (Great Britain): Press Lift Training
24 Mar, 2019
Rafael Chimishkyan: Happy 90th Birthday!
23 Mar, 2019
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
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