Grand Finale in Paris (1946)
History in Color: October 19, 1946, Paris, France – In the end of the last day of the 1946 World Championships, the winners in the the heavyweight class (82.5+kg) received their medals at the...
History in Color: October 19, 1946, Paris, France – In the end of the last day of the 1946 World Championships, the winners in the the heavyweight class (82.5+kg) received their medals at the...
History in Color: September 19, 1958, Stockholm, Sweden – 26-year old Bulgarian lightweight Ivan Abadzhiev performs his 1st attempt in a clean-and-jerk program in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1958 World Championships in...
History in Color at Lift Up: October 21, 1950, Kaiserslahtern, Germany – Team Germany and Team USA athletes are lined up before a friendly exhibition match in Olympic weightlifting (left to right): GERMANY: Theo...
History in Color: December 15, 1979, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, USSR – 32-year old David Rigert of the Trud Team (Taganrog, Russia) prepares for an attempt to snatch a world record (182.5kg) in the 100kg class...
History in Color: August 30, 1972, Munich, Germany – 25-year old lightweight Mladen Kuchev of Team Bulgaria sets the last world record in press (157.5kg) in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1972 Summer...
History in Color: With seven days left to the opening of the 1982 World Championships in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, candidates to the national Team USSR gathered for a group shot in the training camp in...
History in Color: June 1964, Paris, France – Legendary middle heavyweight, 32-year old Ireneusz Palinski of Poland completes a clean-and-jerk (185kg) at the invitational international tournament dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the French...
History in Color: July 18, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine, USSR –25-year old middle heavyweight Vladimir Golovanov of the Army Club, Khabarovsk, Russia wins the 1964 USSR Championship title in the 90kg class with the world...
The cover photo of the History in Color series features a color version of a portrait of legendary John Terry who became the first Black American weightlifter to compete for the United States at...
January 3, 2023 – One of the best super heavyweights of the 1970s, Petr Pavlasek of Czech Republic passed away in Tyn nad Vltavou at 75. A 2x Olympian, Petr Pavlasek competed for for...