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History in Color: 2x Olympic champions, super heavyweight legends of Olympic weightlifting, Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR are having an armwrestling match on the beach...
History in Color: June 21, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, legendary Imre Foldi of Team Hungary is preparing to press a new world record (127.5kg) in the 56kg weight...
History in Color: September 26, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – Champion of the 1968 Summer Olympics, middle heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi of Finland wins a gold medal in the press program at the 1969 World Championships...
History in Color: Marseille, France, 1975 – Soviet junior flyweight Vitaly Danilchenko of Mariupol (Zdanov), Ukraine performs a clean-and-jerk lift at the 1975 Junior World Championships in Marseille. Vitaly Danilchenko (born in 1956) is...
History in Color: October 15, 1955, Munich, Germany – 20-year old Jim George of Acron, Ohio, USA competes in the clean-and-jerk lifting in the 82.5kg weight class and wins a bronze medal at the...
History in Color: March 8, 1958, Moscow, Russia – Middleweight rivals, Fedor Bogdanovsky of the Soviet Union and Tommy Kono of the United States, are having converstion during the 1958 Prize of Moscow international...
History in Color: November 14, 1971, Sundbyberg, Sweden – 26-year-old middle heavyweight Bo Johansson of Sweden cleans 210kg (WR) in the 90kg weight class at the 1971 Sweden vs. Finland weightlifting meet in Sundbyberg....
History in Color: James “Jim” Halliday (1918-2007) was one of the most memorable weightlifting characters of the post World War 2 decade in Olympic weightlifting. He earned his nickname “Jumping Jim” after developing a...
History in Color: October 1966, East Berlin, Germany – Two key personalities of Olympic weightlifting of their countries, Bob Hoffman (USA) and Arkady Vorobyev (USSR) exchange a firm handshake on the streets of East...
History in Color: July 29, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Vice champion of the 1976 Olympics, 29-year-old middleweight Vartan Militosyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia competes for Team Armenia in the 75kg weight class at the...
Frank Spellman (USA): Paris, 1946
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