1968 Team USA Weightlifting in Mexico City
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...
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Arnold Can Be Silly Sometimes
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...
Vasily Alexeev and CCCP Strongest in Podolsk (1976)
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...
Team USA Weightlifting in Berlin (1936)
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),...
Mati Nuude of Tallinn, Estonia
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...
Arturs Sliede of Riga, Latvia
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...
CCCP and Bulgaria: Joint Training Camp
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:...
Plug and Play, USA!
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...
Snatch Pull in Munich
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...
Press Lift by Karl Pumpurins
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)....
