Joseph Manger (Germany) and Steve Stanko (USA)
History in Color: October 23, 1938, Vienna, Austria – Joseph Manger of Germany wins a gold medal in the 82.5+kg weight class and Steve Stanko of Team USA becomes a silver medalist at the...
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Paul Anderson (USA)
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, Paul Anderson of Team USA receives the highest trophy in Olympic weightlifting, the gold Olympic medal...
Coaches and Athletes: Marchuk and Akopyants
History in Color: One of the best super heavyweights in the world in the early 1980s, Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia is about to begin his snatch lift. His coach Mikhail Akopyants is watching...
Team Finland (1964)
History in Color: Team Finland Weightlifting goes all the way to the East to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (top to bottom): Pentti Anttila, Eino Makinen (90+kg), Jouni Kailajarvi (90kg), Jaakko...
Olympic Team Bulgaria 1976
History in Color: The second Olympic Team Bulgaria assembled by legendary coach Ivan Abadzhiev is ready to go to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada (left to right): Atanas Shopov (90kg), Blagoy Blagoev...
Hello, Mexico City! Bo Johansson is Here!
History in Color: October 1968, Mexico City, Mexico – Swedish Olympian and one of the top contenders in the 90kg weightlifting competition, Bo Valdemar Johansson has arrived to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico...
Polska Slawa: Three Milestone Lifters of Team Poland
History in Color cover photo features three top stars of Polish Olympic weightlifting (left to right): Marian Zielinski (1929-2005, 60/67.5kg); Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006, 82.5/90kg); Waldemar Baszanowski (1935-2011, 67.5/75kg) Polish weightlifting produced many world famaous...
Leonid Taranenko
History in Color: March 5, 1982, Frunze, Kirgizia – 1980 Olympic champion Leonid Taranenko of Minsk, Belarus competes in the clean-and-jerk program of the heavyweight class at the 1982 Friendship Cup in Frunze. As...
The Brothers Kailajarvi in 1965
All three Kailajarvi lifting brothers are family men. They work in the same big industrial company – Jorma as an iron-plate worker (now a labour investigator), Jouni as a truck mechanic, Jaakko as an...
Dave Sheppard (USA) in Melbourne
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Middle heavyweight Dave Sheppard of Team USA Weightlifting competes in the press program of the 90kg weightclass at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Sheppard...
