Happy 4th of July!
This is a Happy 4th of July Olympic weightlifting style message! U.S. weightlifting has a long and impressive history of legendary teams, coaches and athletes. One of them was John Terpak (1912-1993) and, by...
This is a Happy 4th of July Olympic weightlifting style message! U.S. weightlifting has a long and impressive history of legendary teams, coaches and athletes. One of them was John Terpak (1912-1993) and, by...
History in Color brings memories about Viktor Solodov, outstanding Soviet middle heavyweight of the 1980s. Viktor Solodov (b.1962) of Kemerovo, Russia was a very powerful athlete of the 1980s. He competed for the Trud...
History in Color: First ever U.S. athlete that won the Summer Olympics in modern weightlifting, Tony Terlazzo of the York Barbell Club, York, PA shows his gold medal in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Tony...
No barbells? No racks? No training platforms? No Eleiko? No York? No Uesaka? No shiny Leningradka chrome? “No problem!” says legendary Yurik Vardanyan on a History in Color photo where he trains in the...
History in Color: The series cover photo features one of the greatest Soviet weightlifters of the pre-WWII era, George Popov (1912-1974). George Popov belongs to the group of outstanding Soviet athletes that were called...
History in color: Team Hungary Weightlifting in 1963 (left to right): Front row: Robert Nady (56kg), Imre Foldi (56kg), Gyozo Veres (75-82.5kg), Andras Orvos (coach), Endre Vanczak; Back row: Karoly Ecser (90+kg), Szabo Elemer,...
History in Color presents an Olympic press lifting by Jaakko Kailajarvi (Finland), one of the most exciting world class athletes to watch in the competitions in the 1960s and 1970s. Jaakko Kailajarvi (b. 1941)...
History in Color: December 1955, NYC, NY – Athletes of Team USA Weightlifting performs their readiness for upcoming Olympics in Melbourne in front of thousands of spectators at the famous Madison Square Garden arena...
History in Color: August 31, 1972, Munich, Germany – Yordan Bikov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria is on his way to win the Olympic gold medal in the 75kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in...
History in Color: August 3, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Super heavyweight Sultanbek Rakhmanov of the Avangard Club of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine wins the 110+kg class with 420kg total (185+135) at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and...