Tommy Kono in Moscow (1955)
History in Color June 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary Tommy Kono of Team USA gathered a crowd of experts watching him at the open training session in Moscow during the historical visit for the...
History in Color June 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary Tommy Kono of Team USA gathered a crowd of experts watching him at the open training session in Moscow during the historical visit for the...
History in Color Nikolay Koshelev (1908-1986) is a historical figure in the Soviet Olympic weightlifting. He was born in the suburbs of Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia) and all his career and achievements are connected...
The History in Color series feature a color version of the photo with Mark Cameron, brilliant world class heavyweight of Team USA in the 1970s, and Dick Smith, more known as “Smitty”, popular coach...
History in Color June 16, 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary Soviet bantamweight Vladimir Stogov of Team USSR is competing against his long-term rival Chuck Vinci in the 56kg class at the USA vs. USSR...
History in Color June 1955, Moscow, Russia – Legendary U.S. middle heavyweight Dave Sheppard of NYC, New York is performing a clean-and-jerk lift at the open training session in Moscow during the historical visit...
Mark it on your calendar – January 26! It’s a 350 pages biography book and it’s a very exciting news.
January 12, 2019 – Happy Birthday to the legendary John Davis (USA). He would have been 98 today. On the History in Color cover photo, there are 9 Summer Olympics in various weight clases, 5...
The History in Color cover photo features legendary Team USA Weightlifting visiting Moscow during the historic USA vs. USSR weightlifting match in June 1955 (left to right): Stan Stanczyk (82.5kg), Clarence Johnson, Joe Pitman...
History in Color: U.S. super heavyweight Olympians – Joe Dube (left), bronze medalist of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. and Paul Anderson, champion of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
History in Color: 2x Olympic champions – Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR. Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016) won the Summer Olympics in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City...