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May 19, 2019 – Great Swedish Champion Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) would have turned 100. Happy Birthday to the legendary champion! Olof Arvid Andersson (1919-2011) happens to be the most successful Swedish Olympic weightlifter of...
May 15, 2019 – Happy 75th Birthday to Arpad Nemessanyi of Team Hungary! Arpad Nemessanyi (b. 1944) was one of the distinguished athletes from the famous Hungarian “magnificent seven” group that brought Hungary...
May 15, 2019 – Legendary sub heavyweight, world record holder Dzhamal Pahakhov of USSR, Kazakhstan turned 65 today. Happy Birthday, Champion! We already featured several photos of Dzhamal Panakhov in the History in Color...
May 15, 2019 – Happy 65th Birthday to Dragomir Cioroslan (Romania, USA), world class athlete, coach and executive
May 15, 2019 – Happy 32nd Birthday to Norik Vardanyan of Team USA and Armenia!
Happy 50th Birthday to one of the last of the Mohicans who competed for the legendary Team USSR Weightlifting turns 50 today! С 50-летием!
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...
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....
Legendary U.S. weightlifter Robert “Bob” Bednarski (1944-2004), world champion and author of 12 world records, would have turned 75 today. Happy Birthday, Champion! We remember you.
Happy 75th Birthday to Jaan Talts!
18 May, 2019
Lazar Baroga (Romania): Tokyo, 1964
17 May, 2019
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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