Sergey Poltoratsky (USSR)
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – At the 1970 USSR Championships, 23-year old middle heavyweight Sergey Poltoratsky of the Daugava Club, Riga, Latvia wins a silver medal in the 90kg class...
History in Color: April 25, 1970, Vilnius, Lithuania – At the 1970 USSR Championships, 23-year old middle heavyweight Sergey Poltoratsky of the Daugava Club, Riga, Latvia wins a silver medal in the 90kg class...
History in Color: August 1954, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – Legendary Canadian heavyweight Douglas Hepburn wins the 90+kg class of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at the Exhibition Gardens, Pacific National Exhibition in...
History in Color: Legendary bodybuilder and Olympic weightlifter John Grimek of the York Barbell is flexing muscles with Marquis the Chimpanzee at the London Palladium in the late 1940s. Just out of curiosity, was Marquis...
History in Color: September 8, 1960, Rome, Italy – Soviet lightweight Viktor Bushuev of Gorky, Russia wins the gold in the 67.5kg class with the 397.5kg world record total at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
On History in Color photo, Ireneusz Palinski (1932-2006), the first Olympic champion of Team Poland and, by all means, one of the best middle heavyweights in the history of Polish and world weightlifting of...
History in Color: August 6, 1978, Edmonton, Canada – 23-year old light heavyweight Robert Kabbas of Team Australia wins a gold medal in the 82.5kg class at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. It...
History in Color: June 17, 1946, Riga, Latvia – Introduction of the champions of the 1946 USSR Championships at the State Circus Arena in Riga. This was the first post-WWII national championship in the...
History in Color: March 9, 1985, Yerevan, Armenia – 22-year Olympic champion Nicu Vlad of Team Romania competes at the 1985 Friendship Cup in Yerevan. Nicu Vlad (b.1963) is one of the all-time weightlifting...
Sad news from Shumen, Bulgaria. Vice Champion of the World (2002) Damian Damianov died at 39 due to severe liver and pancreatic problems. Our condolences go to the family and friends of Damian Damianov....
On the History in Color cover, one of the most memorable athletes of the 1970s, World and European Champion, USSR Champion, author of many world records and the first light heavyweight in the Club...