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One of the best Olympic weightlifting teams in the world in the 1950s and 1960s, Team USA is having a good time in the rural area in Pennsylvania. Not far from the York Barbell...
One of the best Olympic weightlifting teams in the world in the 1950s and 1960s, Team USA is having a good time in the rural area in Pennsylvania. Not far from the York Barbell...
David Rigert has began his snatch pull… The photo was taken at the 1972 Olympics. It wasn’t the best performance by the legend. Nevertheless, Rigert continues to be a true inspiration in Olympic weightlifting. Go...
Karl Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competes in the press lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiad in Moscow. Pumpurins pressed 195kg in the 110kg weight class and took the 5th place with the 540kg total (195+145+200)....
Speaking of how low some of the Olympic weightlifters were able to capture the weight in the snatch lift squat… On the cover photo Vladimir Kononov of Team USSR snatches 170kg in the 100kg...
The History in Color cover photo features legendary Tommy Kono working with the athletes in Germany. 2x Olympic champion Kono was preparing Team West Germany for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Sad news from Smolyan, Bulgaria… On August 20, 2017, Olympic weightlifter Velichko Cholakov had a heart attack and died at the age of 35, in the hospital in his hometown of Smolyan, Bulgaria. Cholakov...
Continuing our World Wide Rigert-O-Mania, we introduce the photo of super heavyweight Bohuslav Braum of Czech Republic. Bohuslav Braum (born in 1956) represented Czechoslovakia in 1979-1984. He won the bronze world and European medal...
On the photo, Arnold Luhaasr competes for Estonia at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Arnold Luhaaar (1905-1965) was one of the strongest Olympic weightlifters of the 1920s and 1930s. He competed at the...
The cover photo of the History in Color series features Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko at the 1972 Championship of the USSR. Ivanchenko was one of the strongest athletes in this class in the...
“I loved to add some showbiz stuff to the weightlifting,” said recently legendary David Rigert about his days on the competitive platform. For a starter, David Rigert is an Olympic champion, 6x World Champion,...