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History in Color: July 30, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – Legendary light heavyweight Yurik Vardanyan of Leninakan (Gyumri), Armenia competes in the clean-and-jerk in the 82.5kg class at the 1979 USSR Spartakiade and Championships in...
History in Color: September 17, 1970, Columbus, OH, USA – 28-year old light heavyweight Joe Puleo of Team USA competes in the Olympic press program in the 82.5kg class at the 1970 World Championships...
History in Color: July 28, 1963, Moscow, Russia – 30-year old Soviet Army lightweight Vladimir Kaplunov of Khabarovsk, Russia is competing in the 67.5kg class at the 1963 USSR Spatakiade and 1963 USSR Championships...
History in Color: October 14, 1950 – Legendary Khadr El Touni of Team Egypt wins wins his 3rd World title in the the middleweight class at the 1950 World Championship in Paris, France. Khadr...
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Heavyweight Doug Hepburn and middleweight Gerry Gratton of Team Canada at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. Both Gratton and Hepburn ...
History in Color: Stockholm, September 9, 1963 – The first Polish World Champion, Marian Zielinski performs a press lift in the lightweight class on his way to his second World title at the 1963...
The History in Color series features a color version of the group photo of American weightlifters taken at the swimming pool of Bob Hoffman in York, PA. The original black-and-white photo was taken after...
History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – U.S. middleweight Peter George of Akron, Ohio USA competes in the press program on his way to the gold medal in the 75kg class at...
March 5, 2019 – Legendary Grigory Novak (1919-1980), the first Soviet World champion and a great athlete and entertainer, would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Everybody knew him. He was a national hero. He...
History in Color June 18, 1955, Moscow, Russia – 34 year-old middleweight Yury Duganov of Team USSR is setting a new world record in snatch (132.5kg) in the 75kg class at the 2nd match...
Louis Martin (Great Britain): Press Lift Training
24 Mar, 2019
Rafael Chimishkyan: Happy 90th Birthday!
23 Mar, 2019
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
