Joe Di Pietro and John Davis (1948)
History in Color: July 21, 1948, Southampton, UK – Members of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team, bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of New Jersey and heavyweight John Davis of New York City are enjoying the...
History in Color: July 21, 1948, Southampton, UK – Members of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting team, bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of New Jersey and heavyweight John Davis of New York City are enjoying the...
History in Color: July 18, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 25-year old Soviet flyweight Alexander Voronin of Kemerovo, Russia prepares for lifting in the 52kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Alexander...
History in Color: March 10, 1961, Moscow, Russia – 24-year old middle heavyweight Louis Martin of Great Britain competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1961 Cup of Moscow international tournament in the...
History in Color: April 28, 1973, Donetsk, Ukraine – Middle heavyweight of the Team USSR, 29-year old Vasily Kolotov of Pervoyralsk, Russia competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1973 USSR Championships in...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Olympic vice champion, heavyweight Humberto Selvetti of Team Argentina congratulates Paul Anderson of Team USA with a gold medal in the 90+kg weight class at...
History in Color: March 21, 1981, Lvov, Ukraine – Legendary David Rigert of Taganrog, Russia competes in the 100kg weight class and snatches the world record (185kg) in his first attempt at the 1981...
History in Color: September 7-13, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden – Members of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. weightlifting teams are spotted during the sight seeing of Stockholm during the 1963 World Championships (left to right): heavyweight...
History in Color: Team USSR Weightlifting (Head coach A. Medvedev, Summer 1974) in the training in Feodosia (left to right): Front row: Eduard Dergachev (Minsk, Belarus, 67.5kg), Vladimir Anikin (Riga, Latvia, 56kg), Alexander Voronin...
“Two lady tourists tried to grab (Pavel) Pervushin behind the stage in Madrid. One was 17. The other one was 56. Both said that they wanted his autograph. However the security personnel of the...
History in Color: Zdravko Stoichkov (born in 1964) of Targovishte, Bulgaria was one of the most promising young Bulgarian athletes of the 1980s. He competed in the 75kg and 82.5kg classes. On the national...