Roberto “Tony” Urrutia (Cuba)
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...
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...
History in Color: August 5, 1968, Budapest, Hungary – One of the first elite Olympic weightlifters to use the push jerk techniques, Arpad Nemessanyi of Team Hungary is preparing with the national team for...
History in Color June 18, 1955, Leningrad, Russia – Paul Anderson of Team USA competes in the 90+kg class in the second match of the historical USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet held in...
History in Color: June 6, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – 18-year old heavyweight Alexander Kraychev of Team Bulgaria competes in the snatch program in the 110kg class of the 1970 European Championships in Szombathely. Kraychev...
History in Color: November 11, 1944, York, PA, USA – Legendary American featherweight, 33-year old Olympic champion Tony Terlazzo performs a clean-and-jerk lift while training at the good old York Barbell Club in York,...
History in Color: September 21, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakty, Russia is going through the last preparations after being called for the lift in the 90 kg class...
History in Color: July 19, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – Legends of Hungarian and World weightlifting, Gyozo Veres and Imre Foldi in the training camp in Budapest. Both Veres and Foldi were true legends of Olympic...
History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 18-year old lightweight Peter George of Akron, OH, USA wins the World title with a 352.5kg (97.5+110+145) total in the 67.5kg class at the...
History in Color: Team USSR Training Camp in Feodosia, 1990 – Outstanding Soviet weightlifting coach, Ibragim Kodzoev (b. 1939) of Grozny, Chechnya and his champion weightlifters, candidates to the national Team USSR in Feodosia...
November 9, 2018 – Legendary Bob Hoffman (USA, 1898 – 1985) would have celebrated his 120th Birthday. Bob Hoffman was the key figure of the U.S. Olympic weightlifting for decades. It’s almost impossible to...