America’s Numero Uno
History in Color: Anthony (Tony) Terlazzo (1911-1966) was the first U.S. Olympic weightlifter to win an Olympic gold medal (1936) and a World title (1937). Tony Terlazzo was a graduate of the York Barbell...
History in Color: Anthony (Tony) Terlazzo (1911-1966) was the first U.S. Olympic weightlifter to win an Olympic gold medal (1936) and a World title (1937). Tony Terlazzo was a graduate of the York Barbell...
Olympic weightlifter Valery Smirnov (1953-2014, on the cover photo) of Leningrad, Russia was definitely one of the “unsung heroes” of this sport. For almost a decade, he dominated the 75kg weight class in the...
Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR, 1970 – The winners in the heavyweight class (110kg) of the 1970 USSR Cup on the medal stand. Left to right: Pavel Pervushin (Leningrad, Russia, bronse medal), Valery Yakubovsky (Moscow, Russia,...
Mexico City, 1968 – The group photo of 1968 Team USA Weightlifting in the Olympic village. Left to right: Major George Ottot (trainer), Phil Grippaldi (90kg, 7th place), Joe Puleo (82.5kg, -), Joe Dube...
Although his major in sports was bodybuilding, it is well known that Arnold Schwarzenegger was a big fan of Olympic weightlifting and knew the strongest men in the world in person. On the other...
This photo brought a lot of memories. Many years ago, when I was a young aspiring weightlifter, I cut it from the book about Vasily Alexeev and added it to my weightlifting diaries with...
Today’s History in Color cover features the group photo of the 1936 U.S. Olympic weightlifting team taken in the Olympic Village at Elstal in Wustermark (Berlin, Germany) Left to right*: Mark Berry (Head Coach),...
On the photo, Mati Nuude competes in the press lifting at the USSR Spartakiad in Moscow in 1971. It’s hard to add Nuude to the list of “unsung heroes”. Mati Nuude was a very...
History of Olympic weightlifting consists of many stories about legendary weightlifters, coaches, trainers and administrators. Some of them are well-known. Some less. Some for a variety of reasons escaped the spotlight of historic reviews...
The cover photo of the History in Color series features interesting group shot of Team CCCP and Team Bulgaria before the 1980 Olympics. The photo was taken in the Tsaghkadzor, Armenia facilites. Left to right:...