Vladimir Belyaev (USSR): World Record in Kiev
History in Color: July 17, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine – 24-year old Vladimir Belyaev, middleweight of the Army Club in Kiev, sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (176.5kg) in his 4th attempt in the...
History in Color: July 17, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine – 24-year old Vladimir Belyaev, middleweight of the Army Club in Kiev, sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (176.5kg) in his 4th attempt in the...
History in Color: August 1953, NYC, NY, USA – The U.S. weightlifting team is about to embark from New York to the 1953 World championships in Stockholm via Scandinavian Airlines (left to right): John...
History in Color: September 15, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Legendary flyweight, Olympic champion Zygmunt Smalcerz of Team Poland prepares for the snatch lift in the 52kg class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow....
History in Color: June 27, 1952, New York City, NY, USA – Lightweight Tommy Kono of the U.S. Army and middleweight Peter George of the ACMWL club receive top awards for winning the championships...
History in Color: October 18, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 40-year old Norbert Schemansky of Michigan, USA won bronze medal in the 90+kg weightclass at his 4th Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Got muscles? Norb Schemansky...
History in Color: The original b/w photo was taken in 1968. Two-time Olympic champion in the super heavyweight, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine is having a good time with a film camera. Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016)...
History in Color: For the most of the world, he is known as Oddjob from the Goldfinger (1964), one of the classics of the James Bond movies. In his life outside the James Bond...
Does anyone know where in the world is Erajarvi? Anyone from Erajarvi here? In the meantime, I looked it up on the map. It’s a small place in the Pirkanmaa region in Finland. There...
History in Color: April 28, 1965, Alushta, Russia – 29-year old super heavyweight Victor Andreev of Cheboksary, Russia is preparing to set a new world record in press (198kg). World records holder and national...
The History in Color series features 18-year old junior lightweight Roberto Urrutia of Team Cuba competing in a weightlifting tournament in Camaguey, Cuba in 1975. Roberto “Tony” Urrutia (born in 1957) was the first...