Trendafil Stoychev (Bulgaria)
History in Color: September 20, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Young light heavyweight star Trendafil Stoychev of Team Bulgaria goes for a 202.5kg clean-and-jerk in the 82.5kg class at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow....
History in Color: September 20, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Young light heavyweight star Trendafil Stoychev of Team Bulgaria goes for a 202.5kg clean-and-jerk in the 82.5kg class at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow....
History in Color: March 20, 1970, Minsk, Belarus – Vasily Kolotov of Pervoyralsk, Russia competes in the 90kg class at the 1970 Friendship Cup in Minsk. Vasily Kolotov (1944-2001) was one of the most...
History in Color: October 13, 1950, Paris, France – Head Coach of Team Egypt Mukhtar Khussein holds the winners of the featherweight competitions at the 1950 World Championships in Paris. Makhmoud Fayad of Egypt...
History in Color: July 20, 1971, Moscow, Russia – One of all times and all nations best Olympic presser Grigory Novak presents national medals to the champions in the press program in the middleweight...
History in Color: August 10, 1948, London, UK – Middleweight Frank Spellman of Team USA wins a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weightclass at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Frank Spellman (1922-2017)...
History in Color: October 3, 1947, Helsinki, Finland – The heavyweight contestants of the 82.5+kg tournament are lined up for the introduction at the 1947 European Championships in Helsinki (left to right): M. Karsch (Finland,...
History in Color: One of the early training camps of Team USSR in Sukhumi before the 1957 Euripean Championships in Katowice (right to left): R.Chimishkyan (60kg), A.Vorobyev (90kg), Ya.Kutsenko (head coach), A.Medvedev (90+kg), F.Bogdanovsky...
History in Color: September 20, 1969, Warsaw, Poland – Zygmunt Smalcerz of Team Poland makes his debut for the national weightlifting team in the 52kg weight class at the 1969 World Championships in Warsaw....
History in Color: October 23, 1938, Vienna, Austria – Joseph Manger of Germany wins a gold medal in the 82.5+kg weight class and Steve Stanko of Team USA becomes a silver medalist at the...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, Paul Anderson of Team USA receives the highest trophy in Olympic weightlifting, the gold Olympic medal...