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History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – 24-year old middleweight of Team Hungary, Gyozo Veres performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 75kg weight class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Alexander Kurynov (USSR) congratulates Tommy Kono (USA) with an Olympic record and the first place in the press competition in the 75kg weight class at...
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnus, Lithuania, USSR – Vasily Kolotov of Pervouralsk, Russia and his coach Alexander Chuzhin are getting ready for the competition in the 90kg class at the 1970 USSR...
History in Color: October 18, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Olympic weightlifting heavyweights showcase medals that they won in the 90+kg weight class in the last day of the tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: July 26, 1980, Moscow, Russia, USSR – 24-year old light heavyweight of Team Bulgaria, Blagoy Blagoev competes in the snatch program in the 90kg weight class at the 1980 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1951 – U.S. Weightlifting team at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires (left to right*): Joe DiPietro (Paterson, NJ, 56kg, gold medal), Joe Pitman (Chambersburg,...
History in Color: September 22, 1975, Moscow, Russia – 27-year old heavyweight from Alma Ata, Vasily Mazheykov competes for the Team USSR in the 110kg weight class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow....
September 6, 2020 – Legendary coach and athlete, Olympic champion and coach of many Olympic champions, Rudolf Plukfelder celebrates his 92nd birthday. Happy Birthday to the Champion! History in Color: August 13, 1959, Moscow,...
History in Color: August 30, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – Legendary U.S. heavyweight, 2x Olympic Champion, 6x World Champion John Davis of NYC, NY, USA competes in the 90+kg weight class at the 1953 World...
History in Color: Moscow, Russia, USSR, March 1963 – Norbert “Norb” Schemansky of Detroit, Michigan, USA is training at the Dynamo Stadium during his stay in the Soviet Union for the 1963 Prize of...
60 Years Ago: Kono and Kurynov in Rome (1960)
20 Sep, 2020
Coaches and Athletes: Chuzhin and Kolotov
20 Sep, 2020
Epic Battle of Heavyweights in Tokyo (1964)
16 Sep, 2020
Blagoy Blagoev (Bulgaria): 1980 Olympics in Moscow
12 Sep, 2020
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
