Team USA: On the Way To Berlin (1936)
History in Color: July 1936 – U.S. weightlifters, coaches and administrators are about ready to travel to Europe for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin (left to right): Front row: Mark Berry (Head Coach),...
History in Color: July 1936 – U.S. weightlifters, coaches and administrators are about ready to travel to Europe for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin (left to right): Front row: Mark Berry (Head Coach),...
History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 33-year old bantamweight Joe Di Pietro of Paterson, NJ, USA wins the World title and sets new world records in press (102.5kg), snatch (87.5kg)...
History in Color: August 1, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 23-year old super heavyweight Victor Mosibit competes for Team Uzbekistan in the 110+kg weight class at the 1983 USSR Championships and 1983 USSR Spartakiade held...
History in Color: September 1981, Moscow, Russia – Team USSR Weightlifting is ready to depart for the 1981 World Championships in Lille, France (left to right): Semyon Itkin (coach), Oleg Pisarevsky (coach), Yury Zakharevich...
History in Color: July 18, 1986, Moscow, Russia – 35-year old heavyweight Anton Baraniak of Team Czechoslovakia wins a silver medal with a 407.5kg (182.5+225) total in the 110kg class at the 1986 Good...
History in Color: December 1984, Yerevan, Armenia – 16-year old winner of the 1984 USSR Cup in the featherweight, Israel Militosyan and his uncle and coach, Olympic vice champion Vartan Militosyan are jogging on...
The History in Color series features a color version of the group shot of U.S. medalists of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The original black-and-whire photo was taken in the Roman Olympic village...
History in Color: July 17, 1964, Kiev, Ukraine – 24-year old Vladimir Belyaev, middleweight of the Army Club in Kiev, sets a new world record in clean-and-jerk (176.5kg) in his 4th attempt in the...
History in Color: August 1953, NYC, NY, USA – The U.S. weightlifting team is about to embark from New York to the 1953 World championships in Stockholm via Scandinavian Airlines (left to right): John...