Paul Anderson (USA): Got Muscles?
History in Color: January 1956 – Legendary U.S. heavyweight weightlifter Paul Anderson is using a measuring tape to show the size of his biceps in front of the media reporters in 1956. The view...
History in Color: January 1956 – Legendary U.S. heavyweight weightlifter Paul Anderson is using a measuring tape to show the size of his biceps in front of the media reporters in 1956. The view...
History in Color: July 27, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 20-year old light heavyweight Anatoly Khrapaty of Team Kazakhstan clean-and-jerks 210kg in the 82.5kg class and wins his first national USSR title at the 1983...
History in Color: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1980 – 19-year old super heavyweight Antonio Krastev of Haskovo, Bulgaria trains with the national Team Bulgaria and its famous coach Ivan Abadzhiev in 1980.
Previously, we’ve published photos of several versions of the 1978 Team USSR Weightlifting in our History in Color series. Here is another group of national team candidates in 1978 (left to right): Front row:...
History in Color: Melbourne, Australia, November 1956 – American gold medal winners of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne (left to right): Bantamweight Chuck Vinci, light heavyweight Tommy Kono, featherweight Isaac Berger. All three...
The History in Color series featured several color version of photos with outstanding Soviet weightlifting champion Trofim Lomakin (1924-1973). We had several articles telling his story and writing about all his medals, titles, awards....
History in Color: Akron, Ohio, USA, 1946 – Young weightlifters of one of all-time best U.S. coach Larry Barnholth during a joint photo session in their hometown of Akron (left to right): Jim Newman,...
Jingle Bells? Santa Claus Is Coming Tonight? All I Want For Christmas Is You? White Christmas? Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow? It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year? I’ll...
History in Color: Summer 1976, Sofia, Bulgaria – Light heavyweight Trendafil Stoychev and middleweight Jordan Mitkov (both of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria) are training with the national Team Bulgaria for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
History in Color: July 19-27, 1971, Sofia, Bulgaria – 39-year old head coach of Team Bulgaria Ivan Abadzhiev reads the news in the local papers during the 1971 European Championships in Sofia. It’s always...