Rafael Chimishkyan: Happy 90th Birthday!
March 19, 2019 – Happy Birthday to legendary Rafael Chimishkyan of Georgia! Today we celebrate his 90th birthday! He is still active, has a great sense of humor and very charismatic. Time didn’t change...
March 19, 2019 – Happy Birthday to legendary Rafael Chimishkyan of Georgia! Today we celebrate his 90th birthday! He is still active, has a great sense of humor and very charismatic. Time didn’t change...
History in Color: October 1964, Tokyo, Japan – Members of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting team, Leonid Zhabotinsky (left) of Zaporozhye, Ukraine and his coach Alexey Medvedev are having a bicycle ride in the Olympic...
History in Color: Brilliant flyweight of the 1970s, 35-year old Olympic champion Zygmunt Smalcerz of Team Poland competes at the 1976 Polish Weightlifting Championships in Zakopane, Poland while preparing for his second Olympics in...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – The strongest man in the world of the 1950s, heavyweight Paul Anderson of Team USA is on his way to the gold Olympic medal in...
When you work on old weightlifting pictures, at certain point, it becomes like a game. Have I been here before? Have I seen this photo before? Have I done this photo already in the...
History in Color: October 7, 1954, Vienna, Austria – Soviet bantamweight Bakir Farkhutdinov of Moscow, Russia wins the World title in the 56kg weight class at the 1954 World Championships in Vienna. Bakir Farkhutdinov...
History in Color: March 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia – Middle heavyweight athletes ate being introduced before the competition in the 90kg weight class at the 1961 Prize of Moscow invitational tournament in Moscow (left...
History in Color: November 12, 1957, Tehran, Iran – Heavyweight champions receive medals for the 90+kg weight class competition of the 1957 World Championships in Teheran: Left to right: Humberto Selvetti (Argentina, silver medal),...
History in Color: May 12, 1958, Chicago, IL – Legendary Tommy Kono competes for the U.S. team in the 75kg class in the first match of the 1958 USA vs USSR Olympic weightlifting series...
History in Color: October 11, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 29-year old Soviet bantamweight Alexey Vakhonin of Shakhty, Russia wins the gold in the 56kg class at opening night of the weightlifting tournament of the...