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The History in Color cover photo features legendary Team USA Weightlifting visiting Moscow during the historic USA vs. USSR weightlifting match in June 1955 (left to right): Stan Stanczyk (82.5kg), Clarence Johnson, Joe Pitman...
History in Color: U.S. super heavyweight Olympians – Joe Dube (left), bronze medalist of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. and Paul Anderson, champion of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
History in Color: 2x Olympic champions – Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR. Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016) won the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City...
Basically, no comments seem to be necessary for this History in Color photo. Norbert Schemansky, one of the greatest lifters ever, is watching the lifting by Ken Patera at the U.S. Olympic Trials for...
Mark it on your calendar – January 26! It’s a 350 pages biography book and it’s a very exciting news. A few thoughts off the top of my head: Kaarlo Kangasniemi is a truly...
History in Color: Olympic vice champion Stefan Dimitrov of Dobrich, Bulgaria competes for his country in the 60kg class at one of the international tournaments in the late 1970s. Stefan Dimitrov (1957-2011) was a...
History in Color: World and European Championships medalist Juhani Mursu of Team Finland competes in the 75kg class at the1969 Nordic Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. Juhani Mursu (b. 1940) was a very strong Olympic weightlifter...
January 7, 2019 – Legendary Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) would have been 77 today. Happy Birthday to the Legend! History in Color: July 24, 1971, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old Soviet super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev...
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Powerful middle heavyweight Bill March of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. March won the 4th place...
History in Color: September 17, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – 25-year rookie of Team CCCP, featherweight Eugene Katsura of Kazan, Russia wins a silver medal with a 110+107.5+140 = 357.5kg total in the 60kg class...
Vasily Alexeev: Strong in Paris (1971)
12 Nov, 2019
Hans Zdrazila at the 1963 Danube Cup
12 Nov, 2019
Top 6 USSR Middle Heavyweights: Moscow, 1967
9 Nov, 2019
El Sayed Nosseir (Egypt): Training in Cairo,1929
9 Nov, 2019
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
