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History in Color cover photo features three top stars of Polish Olympic weightlifting (left to right): Marian Zielinski (1929-2005, 60/67.5kg); Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006, 82.5/90kg); Waldemar Baszanowski (1935-2011, 67.5/75kg) Polish weightlifting produced many world famaous...
History in Color: March 5, 1982, Frunze, Kirgizia – 1980 Olympic champion Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus competes in the clean-and-jerk program of the heavyweight class at the 1982 Friendship Cup in Frunze. As...
All three Kailajarvi lifting brothers are family men. They work in the same big industrial company – Jorma as an iron-plate worker (now a labour investigator), Jouni as a truck mechanic, Jaakko as an...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Middle heavyweight Dave Sheppard of Team USA Weightlifting competes in the press program of the 90kg weightclass at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Sheppard...
History in Color: Anatoly Kozlov (b. 1955) of Kholmsk, Russia had a phenomenal year of 1977 in Olympic weightlifting. On April 8, 1977, at the 1977 Russian Federation (RSFSR) Championships in Volzhsky, Russia, 22-year...
History in Color: Michel Broillet (b. 1944) of Switzerland was one of the top Olympic weightlifters the 1970s. Michel Broillet represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also won bronze at the...
History in Color: July 23, 1977, Stuttgart, Germany – 26-year old Rolf Milser of West Germany wins a silver medal in the 90kg weight class at the 1977 World Championships in Stuttgart. Rolf Milser...
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Swedish Olympian Per Ingvar Asp competes in the middle heavyweight class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
History in Color: Alexandria, Egypt, 1950s – Olympic champion, 2x World champion, world records holder Ibrahim Hassan Shams of Team Egypt is training at the famous Kabbas Gym in Alexandria. Gabriel Kabbas watches the...
History in Color: July 27, 1980, Moscow, Russia – In order to win a gold Olympic medal, 20-year old middleweight Rumen Alexandrov of Bulgaria tries to clean-and-jerk 210kg in the 90kg class at the...
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Norbert Schemansky (USA): Back in Detroit in 1966
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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