Sevdalin Marinov (Bulgaria)
History in Color: Sevdalin Marinov (b. 1968) became an Olympic champion when won the gold in the flyweight class at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Marinov competed for Team Bulgaria in the 1980s and became...
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Ivan Veselinov (Bulgaria)
History in Color: Ivan Veselinov (b. 1926) was one of the best and most known Bulgarian weightlifters of the post World War II generation. From 1950 to 1968, he won 16 Bulgarian Championships! Veselinov...
Be a Champ! Lift Like Alexander Kraychev!
History in Color presents a color version of the pnoto with one of the first and best graduates of Bulgarian weightlifting school by Ivan Abadzhiev, Alexander Kraychev. Alexander Kraychev (b. 1951) was one of...
Mladen Kuchev (Bulgaria)
History in Color: Mladen Kuchev (b. 1947) was the member of the first national team assembled by Ivan Abadzhiev when he was appointed to run national weightlifting Team Bulgaria. He was a 2x Olympian...
How Much Warm-Up Space Did the Oldtime Legends Need To Win?
How much space? It didn’t matter. At least, looking at this photo of legendary Tommy Kono in the History in Color series, I seriously doubt that the matter of space or crowdedness really could...
Ingemar Franzen (Sweden)
History in Color features one of the most internationally decorated Olympic weightlifters of Sweden in the 20th century, Ingemar Franzen. Ingemar Franzen (1927-1985) competed in the middleweight. He represented Sweden at the the 1956...
Oleg Karayanidi
History in Color: July 26, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Oleg Karayanidi competes for the Army Team of Moscow in the 56kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade in Leningrad. Oleg Karayanidi (1957-1989) was very...
Olympic Press Lift in Teheran
History in Color: November 10, 1957, Teheran, Iran – Ivan Abadzhiev of Bulgaria performs an Olympic press lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1957 World Championships in Teheran. In Teheran, future famous coach...
Olympic Team USA 1948 In London
History in Color: U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team, London, England 1948 (b/w original photo courtesy of Dr. Peter George, left to right): Front row: Stan Stanzyck, Joe DePietri, Richard Tom, Joe Pitman, Emerick Ishikawa, Richard...
Vladimir Kaplunov
History in Color: Vladimir Kaplunov (1933-2015) of Khabarovsk, Russia was one of the best lightweight Olympic lifters in the world in the first half of the 1960s. Kaplunov won the World Championship in 1962,...
