Jaan Talts Joins the 500 Club (1967)
History in Color: Jaan Talts (Estonia) Moscow, USSR, August 1, 1967 – Jaan Talts of Estonia competes in the 90kg of the 1967 USSR Spartakiad weight class at the “Shakhter” (Coal Miner) Weightlifting Hall...
History in Color: Jaan Talts (Estonia) Moscow, USSR, August 1, 1967 – Jaan Talts of Estonia competes in the 90kg of the 1967 USSR Spartakiad weight class at the “Shakhter” (Coal Miner) Weightlifting Hall...
Team USA Olympic Legends in History in Color Olympic champions Tommy Kono and Peter George of Team USA exchange smiles while lifting 170kg at the open training session. Tommy Kono won the Summer Olympics...
Athletes Coached by A. Faradzhan in History in Color Series The cover photo from our History in Color series features famous athletes and coaches of the Dynamo club in Moscow, Russia in the 1970s....
Palais de Chaillot theater in Paris, France, 1946 – Altletes of Team Egypt and Team USSR gathered on the stage of the theater for a group shot after the end of the 1946 World...
May 1968 – Lugansk, Ukraine, USSR: Olympic champion of Tokyo (1964), Vladimir Golovanov presses 165kg at the 1968 USSR Championship. The display behind the athlete shows the world record in the press lift –...
Legendary American super heavyweight Paul Anderson posing in front of the photo reporters during the exhibition weightlifting at the Madison Square Garden in NYC in 1955. Paul Anderson in the History in Color Series...
History in Color: Anthony (Tony) Terlazzo (1911-1966) was the first U.S. Olympic weightlifter to win an Olympic gold medal (1936) and a World title (1937). Tony Terlazzo was a graduate of the York Barbell...
Olympic weightlifter Valery Smirnov (1953-2014, on the cover photo) of Leningrad, Russia was definitely one of the “unsung heroes” of this sport. For almost a decade, he dominated the 75kg weight class in the...
Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR, 1970 – The winners in the heavyweight class (110kg) of the 1970 USSR Cup on the medal stand. Left to right: Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, Russia, bronse medal), Valery Yakubovsky (Moscow, Russia,...
Mexico City, 1968 – The group photo of 1968 Team USA Weightlifting in the Olympic village. Left to right: Major George Ottot (trainer), Phil Grippaldi (90kg, 7th place), Joe Puleo (82.5kg, -), Joe Dube...