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History in Color: October 26, 2018 – Today true legend of Czech and World Olympic weightlifting, Vaclav Psenicka Sr. (1906-1961) would have been celebrating his 112th birthday. Vaclav Psenicka Sr. represented Czechoslovakia at three...
History in Color Series: Victor Sots (b. 1958) of Donetsk, Ukraine, USSR is training in the 1980s. Victor Sots was one of the strongest lifters in the 100kg class in the early 1980s. He won...
History in Color: April 22, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – Legendary Soviet middleweight Viktor Kurentsov competes for the Soviet Army Club of Khabarovsk, Russia in the 75kg class at the 1970 USSR Championships in Vilnius....
With only a few days before the beginning of the 2018 IWF Championships and national weightlifting teams traveling to Ashgabat, here goes a History in Color version of a group shot of weightlifting Team...
This issue of our History in Color series features legendary Paul Anderson, Olympic champion of Melbourne (1956) appearing as a guest contestant at one the first comedy-quiz TV shows “The Best of Groucho” in...
October 22, 2018 – Henryk Trebicki (Poland, 1940 – 1996) would have celebrated his 78th birthday. Happy Birthday, Champ! History in Color: September 13, 1970, Columbus, OH, USA – One of the best bantamweights...
History in Color: March 19, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – One of the best super heavyweight of Team Czechoslovakia, Jan Nagy performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 110+kg weight class at the 1973 Friendship Cup...
History in Color: October 9, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Legendary Dave Sheppard of New York City, NY, USA competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships in Vienna Due to the...
Just a different angle for our Rigert-o-Mania series… Don’t take it too serious 🙂 “I loved to add some showbiz stuff to the weightlifting,” said recently legendary David Rigert about his days on the...
History in Color: October 27, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion Yurik Vardanyan of Team USSR and Leninakan, Armenia competes in a snatch lift program in the 82.5kg class at the 1983 World Championships...
“Are You Ready, David?” (Moscow, 1975)
14 Nov, 2018
Hungarian Legends: Imre Foldi and Gyozo Veres
13 Nov, 2018
Peter George (USA): 1st World Title at 18
12 Nov, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
