Vasily Kolotov (CCCP)
History in Color: March 20, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – Vasily Kolotov of Pervoyralsk, Russia competes in the 90kg class at the 1970 Friendship Cup in Minsk. Vasily Kolotov (1944-2001) was one of the most...
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Free Ride in Paris (1950)
History in Color: October 13, 1950, Paris, France – Head Coach of Team Egypt Mukhtar Khussein holds the winners of the featherweight competitions at the 1950 World Championships in Paris. Makhmoud Fayad of Egypt...
Grigory Novak at the Olympic Press Medal Ceremony (1971)
History in Color: July 20, 1971, Moscow, Russia – One of all times and all nations best Olympic presser Grigory Novak presents national medals to the champions in the press program in the middleweight...
Frank Spellman (USA)
History in Color: August 10, 1948, London, UK – Middleweight Frank Spellman of Team USA wins a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weightclass at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Frank Spellman (1922-1017)...
Top European Heavyweights in Helsinki
History in Color: October 3, 1947, Helsinki, Finland – The heavyweight contestants of the 82.5+kg tournament are lined up for the introduction at the 1947 European Championships in Helsinki (left to right): M. Karsch (Finland,...
Team CCCP Weightlifting in Sukhumi (1957)
History in Color: One of the early training camps of Team USSR in Sukhumi before the 1957 Euripean Championships in Katowice (right to left): R.Chimishkyan (60kg), A.Vorobyev (90kg), Ya.Kutsenko (head coach), A.Medvedev (90+kg), F.Bogdanovsky...
Zygmunt Smalcerz (Poland)
History in Color: September 20, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – Zygmunt Smalcerz of Team Poland makes his debut for the national weightlifting team in the 52kg weight class at the 1969 World Championships in Warsaw....
Joseph Manger (Germany) and Steve Stanko (USA)
History in Color: October 23, 1938, Vienna, Austria – Joseph Manger of Germany wins a gold medal in the 82.5+kg weight class and Steve Stanko of Team USA becomes a silver medalist at the...
Paul Anderson (USA)
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, Paul Anderson of Team USA receives the highest trophy in Olympic weightlifting, the gold Olympic medal...
Coaches and Athletes: Marchuk and Akopyants
History in Color: One of the best super heavyweights in the world in the early 1980s, Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia is about to begin his snatch lift. His coach Mikhail Akopyants is watching...
