Chuck Vinci (USA) Wins the Last U.S. Olympic Gold Medal For Men
History in Color: September 7, 1960, Rome, Italy – Bantamweight Charles Vinci of Team USA performs a snatch lift on his way to the Olympic Gold in the 56kg weight class at the 1960...
History in Color: September 7, 1960, Rome, Italy – Bantamweight Charles Vinci of Team USA performs a snatch lift on his way to the Olympic Gold in the 56kg weight class at the 1960...
History in Color: December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine – Members of Team Army receives the main award of the tournament after winning the first place at the 1981 USSR Cup in Donetsk (left to...
History in Color: September 12, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden – 27-year old middle heavyweight Bill March of Team USA competes in the 90kg class at the 1963 World Championships in Stockholm. William “Bill” Match (b....
The History in Color cover photo features Anatoly Mayasin of Team Latvia performing a snatch lift. Anatoly Mayasin (1931-2010) competed in the 67.5kg and 75kg weight classes for the Dynamo club of Riga, Latvia....
History in Color: October 18, 1946, Paris, France – The strongest featherweights in the world at the medal ceremony in the 60kg weight class at the 1946 World Championships in Paris (left to right):...
Our History in Color cover features Sergey Eliseev (left) and Georg Hackenschmidt, two of the most distinguished weightlifting athletes from the Russian Empire in the late 1890s and early 1900s. That era of the...
History in Color: December 7, 1971, Yerevan, Armenia – One of the strongest and most charismatic heavyweights of the 1970s, 24-year old Pavel Pervushin of the Army Club (Leningrad, Russia) sets a new world...
History in Color: March 10, 1961, Moscow, Russia – 30-year old light heavyweight Tommy Kono of the United States competed in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow International tournament in...
History in Color: August 1, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 29-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of the Burevestnik Club (Moscow, Russia) is competing in the clean-and-jerk program in the 110+kg class at the 1983...