Lee James: American Weightlifting Cinderella Man
History in Color: Legendary American weightlifter Lee James competes in the 90kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow, Russia. It was one of the last appearances of Lee James of Team USA...
History in Color: Legendary American weightlifter Lee James competes in the 90kg class at the 1978 Friendship Cup in Moscow, Russia. It was one of the last appearances of Lee James of Team USA...
November 15, 1986, Sofia, Bulgaria – Bulgarian weightlifing team just finished competing in the 1986 World Championships with a phenomenal team record. They won 7 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in 10...
History in Color: September 17, 1975, Moscow – Featherweight Georgi Todorov of Bulgaria wins his 2nd world title with a world record total of 285kg (125+160) at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. Georgi...
October 19, 1946, Paris, France – Grigory Novak of Team CCCP Weightlifting wins the world title in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1946 World Championship in France and becomes the 1st ever Soviet...
October 19, 1968, Mexico City – 24-year old super heavyweight Joe Dube of Team USA competes in the snatch part of Olympic weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. Joe had...
History in Color: Champions of the 1956 Summer Olympics Paul Anderson (USA, left) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake behind the scenes of the Olympics in Melbourne. Head coach of Team USSR...
History in Color: The cover photo features two strongest Soviet light heavyweights in 1970 – Gennady Ivanchenko (left) of Riga, Latvia and David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia. Both are definitely familiar to the Iron...
History in Color: One of the best Olympic pressers in the history of weightlifting, Grigory Novak performs an exhibition lifting at the football stadium in the 194os. Grigory Novak (1919-1980) was a national hero...
History in Color: One of the pioneers of Olympic weightlifting in the USSR, Israel Mekhanik (1909-1989) performs a one-hand snatch in the mid 1930s. Israel Mechanik competed in the light weight for the Lokomotiv...
History in Color: R. Plyukfelder The History in Color cover photo features our color version of the black-and-white photo of legendary Olympic weightlifter and coach Rudolf Plukfelder back in 1959. Rudolf Plukfelder...