Olympic Press Lift in Teheran
History in Color: November 10, 1957, Teheran, Iran – Ivan Abadzhiev of Bulgaria performs an Olympic press lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1957 World Championships in Teheran. In Teheran, future famous coach...
History in Color: November 10, 1957, Teheran, Iran – Ivan Abadzhiev of Bulgaria performs an Olympic press lift in the 67.5kg class at the 1957 World Championships in Teheran. In Teheran, future famous coach...
History in Color: U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team, London, England 1948 (b/w original photo courtesy of Dr. Peter George, left to right): Front row: Stan Stanzyck, Joe DePietri, Richard Tom, Joe Pitman, Emerick Ishikawa, Richard...
History in Color: Vladimir Kaplunov (1933-2015) of Khabarovsk, Russia was one of the best lightweight Olympic lifters in the world in the first half of the 1960s. Kaplunov won the World Championship in 1962,...
History in Color: July 25, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Soviet bantamweight Ivan Udodov of Rostov, Russia receives a gold Olympic medal for winning the 56kg weight class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki....
History in Color: 2x Olympic vice champion, champion of the World, Europe and USSR, Dito Shanidze (1937-2010) is getting ready for the next attempt.
History in Color: Super heavyweight champion of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Sultan Rakhmanov of the Avangard Club (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) competes at the 1982 USSR Cup in Moscow
History in Color: July 24, 1980, Moscow, Russia – 20-year old Asen Zlatev of Bulgaria wins a gold Olympic medal in the 75kg weight class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Asen Zlatev...
History in Color: January 25, 1975, Christchurch, New Zealand – Weightlifting legend David Rigert of Team CCCP is getting ready to go for a world record in the snatch lift at the 1975 New...
History in Color presents a “color view” of legendary Kenneth “Ken” Patera of Team USA Weightlifting. Ken Patera (b. 1943) is a true legend of strength – not only in Olympic weightlifting but in...
History in Color presents a photo of one of the most impressive Swedish Olympic weightlifters of the late 1960s – 1970s Folke Klas-Ove Johansson. Ove Johansson (b.1943) competed in the super heavyweight for his...