Kosarev
History in Color: Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat Kosarev when he competed. He won the USSR championship in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944,...
History in Color: Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat Kosarev when he competed. He won the USSR championship in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944,...
Thank you so much for the colorized photos of so many Soviet lifters. Many of these were before I got interested in lifting but many were also lifters who never got to compete outside...
History in Color Series: October 21, 1964 (Tokyo, Japan) – In his last attempt at the 1964 Summer Olympics, Olympic champion Yury Vlasov goes for 217.5kg in the clean-and-jerk. It’s a world record at the...
Those who like Louis de Funès and French comedy of the past might get a smile here. Anyway, it’s good to be handy 🙂
History in Color: Life consists of the flow of ups and downs. This one is definitely was a “big down” for legendary David Rigert. On the enchanced cover photo, David Rigert bombs out in the...
History in Color: Peter George (b. 1929) of Team USA was one of the most distinguished Olympic weightlifter in the history of this sport. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: Soviet light heavyweight Valery Shary goes for the world record in the clean-and-jerk at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. He just secured a gold medal in the 82.5kg class with...
Sad news came from Hungary. One of the best Olympic weightlifters of all times, Imre Foldi died on April 23, 2017. He was 78 years old. Imre Foldi was a true legend of the...
History in Color series: Team CCCP Weightlifting is training hard for the upcoming 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Powerful Soviet light heavyweight Trofim Lomakin seems to be upset by something. Behind him is his...
From the History in Color series: Alexey Vakhonin of Kiselevsk, Russia competes in the bantamweight class at the 1963 Cup of Moscow. In a year, Vakhonin will win the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in...