Mincho Pashov (Bulgaria)
History in Color: Mincho Pashov (b. 1961) of Plovdiv, Bulgaria is an outstanding international athlete of the 1980s produced by Ivan Abadzhiev and Team Bulgaria. Pashov is a Bulgarian Olympian. He took a bronze...
History in Color: Mincho Pashov (b. 1961) of Plovdiv, Bulgaria is an outstanding international athlete of the 1980s produced by Ivan Abadzhiev and Team Bulgaria. Pashov is a Bulgarian Olympian. He took a bronze...
The title certainly ain’t a set-up for an anecdote line or something… History in Color: September 26, 1974, Manila, Philippines – Trendafil Stoychev of Team Bulgaria wins the 82.5kg weight class with 350kg total...
History in Color features one of Swedish weightlifting greats Jan-Olov Nolsjo. Jan-Olov Nolsjo (b. 1948) represented Sweden at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He competed in the 110+kg weight class and took the...
History in Color: October 10, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Norbert Schemansky of Detroit, USA wins the World title in the 90+kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships. Norbert Schemansky was 30 at the...
History in Color: July 22, 1976, Montreal, Canada – Middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria is on his way to a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
History in Color: Legendary Paul Anderson performs demo weightlifting with Team USA in the Madison Square Garden in December 1955. Team USA captain Peter George is a spotter in the back. I don’t know...
History in Color: September 3, 1972, Munich, Germany – Swedish middle heavyweight Hans Bettembourg performs a snatch lift in the 90kg class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He won a bronze Olympic...
History in Color: July 26, 1976, Montreal, Canada – 22-year old heavyweight Krastyu Semerdzhiev of Bulgaria competes in the 110kg class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Heavyweight champion of Bulgaria (1975), Krastyu...
History in Color: October 15, 1950, Paris, France – 35-year old heavyweight of Team CCCP Weightlifting, Yakov Kutsenko has been called to the competition platform for his next lift at the 1950 World Championships...
History in Color features Vladimir Stetilko, one of the most prominent Soviet weightlifters of the 1940s. Vladimir Svetilko (1915 – 1996) competed for the Army Club of Batumi, Georgia and the Dynamo Club of...