Olympic Team Bulgaria 1976
History in Color: The second Olympic Team Bulgaria assembled by legendary coach Ivan Abadzhiev is ready to go to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada (left to right): Atanas Shopov (90kg), Blagoy Blagoev...
History in Color: The second Olympic Team Bulgaria assembled by legendary coach Ivan Abadzhiev is ready to go to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada (left to right): Atanas Shopov (90kg), Blagoy Blagoev...
History in Color: October 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Swedish Olympian and one of the top contenders in the 90kg weightlifting competition, Bo Valdemar Johansson has arrived to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
History in Color cover photo features three top stars of Polish Olympic weightlifting (left to right): Marian Zielinski (1929-2005, 60/67.5kg); Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006, 82.5/90kg); Waldemar Baszanowski (1935-2011, 67.5/75kg) Polish weightlifting produced many world famaous...
History in Color: March 5, 1982, Frunze, Kirgizia – 1980 Olympic champion Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus competes in the clean-and-jerk program of the heavyweight class at the 1982 Friendship Cup in Frunze. As...
All three Kailajarvi lifting brothers are family men. They work in the same big industrial company – Jorma as an iron-plate worker (now a labour investigator), Jouni as a truck mechanic, Jaakko as an...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Middle heavyweight Dave Sheppard of Team USA Weightlifting competes in the press program of the 90kg weightclass at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Sheppard...
History in Color: Anatoly Kozlov (b. 1955) of Kholmsk, Russia had a phenomenal year of 1977 in Olympic weightlifting. On April 8, 1977, at the 1977 Russian Federation (RSFSR) Championships in Volzhsky, Russia, 22-year...
History in Color: Michel Broillet (b. 1944) of Switzerland was one of the top Olympic weightlifters the 1970s. Michel Broillet represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also won bronze at the...
History in Color: July 23, 1977, Stuttgart, Germany – 26-year old Rolf Milser of West Germany wins a silver medal in the 90kg weight class at the 1977 World Championships in Stuttgart. Rolf Milser...
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Swedish Olympian Per Ingvar Asp competes in the middle heavyweight class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.