Mladen Kuchev (Bulgaria)
History in Color: Mladen Kuchev (b. 1947) was the member of the first national team assembled by Ivan Abadzhiev when he was appointed to run national weightlifting Team Bulgaria. He was a 2x Olympian...
History in Color: Mladen Kuchev (b. 1947) was the member of the first national team assembled by Ivan Abadzhiev when he was appointed to run national weightlifting Team Bulgaria. He was a 2x Olympian...
How much space? It didn’t matter. At least, looking at this photo of legendary Tommy Kono in the History in Color series, I seriously doubt that the matter of space or crowdedness really could...
History in Color features one of the most internationally decorated Olympic weightlifters of Sweden in the 20th century, Ingemar Franzen. Ingemar Franzen (1927-1985) competed in the middleweight. He represented Sweden at the the 1956...
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...