Dito Shanidze
History in Color: “It’s going to be OK!” says legendary featherweight Dito Shanidze of Tbilisi, Georgia while approaching the weight before the press lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow. Original b/w photo...
History in Color: “It’s going to be OK!” says legendary featherweight Dito Shanidze of Tbilisi, Georgia while approaching the weight before the press lift at the 1971 USSR Spartakiade in Moscow. Original b/w photo...
History in Color: Team USA is getting ready to go to Rome for the 1960 Summer Olympics. Isaac Berger and Norbert Schemansky are practicing some martial arts between the lifts.
History in color: August 1, 1967 – 23-year old Jaan Talts of Estonia sets two new world records in the 90kg weight class at the 1967 USSR Spartakiade. Talts won his first gold medal...
History in Color: A group shot of Team CCCP Weightlifting during their stay in the USA at the 1978 World Championhip. The original photo by Bruce Klemens (USA) Front row (l to r)): D.Rigert...
History in Color Series: Introduction of the 110+kg athletes at the 1971 USSR Spartakiade and Championships in Moscow. Left to right: Kuzmin (Russia), Alexeev (Russia), Batishchev (Ukraine), Nuude (Estonia), Sliede (Latvia), Kazandzhyan (Georgia), Khizambareli...
History in Color: Soviet finest David Rigert of Shakty, Russia cleans weight at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow.
History in Color: On the cover photo, legendary Soviet light heavyweight Gennady Ivanchenko is working out in his Dynamo gym in Riga, Latvia. Ivanchenko used a wide variety of support and strength exercises in...
History in Color Series: Fedor Bogdanovsky (1930-2014), Olympic champion (1956), the middleweight class lead of Team CCCP in the 1950s.
History in Color: Norbert Schemansky just became an Olympic champion in the 90kg class and set a new world record in clean-and-jerk (177.5kg). Now, he goes for another world record in his 4th attempt.
History in Color: Legendary super heavyweight champion Paul Anderson of Team USA Weightlifting is performing back squats in LA.