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Mark it on your calendar – January 26! It’s a 350 pages biography book and it’s a very exciting news. A few thoughts off the top of my head: Kaarlo Kangasniemi is a truly...
History in Color: Olympic vice champion Stefan Dimitrov of Dobrich, Bulgaria competes for his country in the 60kg class at one of the international tournaments in the late 1970s. Stefan Dimitrov (1957-2011) was a...
History in Color: World and European Championships medalist Juhani Mursu of Team Finland competes in the 75kg class at the1969 Nordic Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden. Juhani Mursu (b. 1940) was a very strong Olympic weightlifter...
January 7, 2019 – Legendary Vasily Alexeev (1942-2011) would have been 77 today. Happy Birthday to the Legend! History in Color: July 24, 1971, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old Soviet super heavyweight Vasily Alexeev...
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Powerful middle heavyweight Bill March of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. March won the 4th place...
History in Color: September 17, 1962, Budapest, Hungary – 25-year rookie of Team CCCP, featherweight Eugene Katsura of Kazan, Russia wins a silver medal with a 110+107.5+140 = 357.5kg total in the 60kg class...
The History in Color series features a photo of legendary Soviet bantamweight Mitrofan Kosarev competing outdoors in Russia. Mitrofan Kosarev (1911-2005) was the best Soviet bantamweight in the 1930s and 1940s. Nobody could beat...
History in Color: November 23, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – Best bantamweight athletes in the world gathered behind the stage during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Vladimir Stogov (USSR), Chuck Vinci...
Happy 70th Birthday to Mukharby Kirzhinov! Kirzhinov was an Olympic champion of 1972, World champion (1972, 1973), European champion (1973, 1974), USSR champion (1971, 1973-1975), champion of Spartakiada in 1971 and 1975. He set...
History in Color: Olympic weightlifting obviously doesn’t have anything to do with the snow. Right? No so fast… On the cover photo, Olympic champion of Helsinki (1952), legendary featherweight Rafael Chimishkyan is performing some...
21 Jan, 2019
20 Jan, 2019
Norbert Schemansky (USA): Back in Detroit in 1966
19 Jan, 2019
19 Jan, 2019
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
