Robert Kabbas (Australia) Turns 65
March 15, 2020 – Happy 65th Birthday to Olympic vice champion Robert Kabbas of Australia!
March 15, 2020 – Happy 65th Birthday to Olympic vice champion Robert Kabbas of Australia!
History in Color: July 27, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 25-year old Soviet heavyweight Yury Zaytsev performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. By the end...
History in Color: May 15, 1951, Kaunas, Lithuania, USSR – On his way to his 2nd national title, legendary Arkady Vorobyev, light heavyweight of the Army Club of Sverdlovsk and one of the top...
History in Color: September 30, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – Olympic champion Isaac Berger, legendary featherweight of the United States, competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1959 World Championships in Warsaw.
History in Color: Moscow, Russia, USSR, 1964– Vladimir Golovanov, 25-year old mid heavyweight of Khabarovsk, Russia, performs snatches at the training camp of the Soviet national weightlifting team while preparing for the 1964 Summer...
February 23, 2020 – World, European and USSR champion, holder of numerous world records, Anatoly Kozlov turns 65. Anatoly Kozlov of the Kholmsk, Sakhalin District, Russia was one of the strongest sub heavyweights in...
The History in Color series features a color version of the photo portrait of legendary Bulgarian weightlifter Ivan Veselinov. Ivan Veselinov (1926-1996) of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria was one of the best and most known Bulgarian...
History in Color: Riga, Latvia, USSR, 1966 – Legendary Olympic weightlifting presser Karlis Pumpurins of the Dynamo Riga club is getting ready to start the lift at a local tournament in his hometown Riga....
History in Color: October 3, 1959, Warsaw, Poland – Mid heavyweight Louis Martin, 23-year old rookie lifter of Team Great Britain, presses 137.5kg on his way to the gold medal in the 90kg weight...
History in Color: Mexico City, Mexico, 1967 – Olympic champion Leonid Zhabotinsky, super heavyweight of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, performs snatch lifts in the training hall in Mexico City during the pre-Olympic training camp with the...