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History in Color: September 15, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Legendary flyweight, Olympic champion Zygmunt Smalcerz of Team Poland prepares for the snatch lift in the 52kg class at the 1975 World Championships in Moscow....
History in Color: June 27, 1952, New York City, NY, USA – Lightweight Tommy Kono of the U.S. Army and middleweight Peter George of the ACMWL club receive top awards for winning the championships...
History in Color: October 18, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 40-year old Norbert Schemansky of Michigan, USA won bronze medal in the 90+kg weightclass at his 4th Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Got muscles? Norb Schemansky...
History in Color: The original b/w photo was taken in 1968. Two-time Olympic champion in the super heavyweight, Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine is having a good time with a film camera. Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938-2016)...
History in Color: For the most of the world, he is known as Oddjob from the Goldfinger (1964), one of the classics of the James Bond movies. In his life outside the James Bond...
Does anyone know where in the world is Erajarvi? Anyone from Erajarvi here? In the meantime, I looked it up on the map. It’s a small place in the Pirkanmaa region in Finland. There...
History in Color: April 28, 1965, Alushta, Russia – 29-year old super heavyweight Victor Andreev of Cheboksary, Russia is preparing to set a new world record in press (198kg). World records holder and national...
The History in Color series features 18-year old junior lightweight Roberto Urrutia of Team Cuba competing in a weightlifting tournament in Camaguey, Cuba in 1975. Roberto “Tony” Urrutia (born in 1957) was the first...
History in Color: August 5, 1968, Budapest, Hungary – One of the first elite Olympic weightlifters to use the push jerk techniques, Arpad Nemessanyi of Team Hungary is preparing with the national team for...
History in Color June 18, 1955, Leningrad, Russia – Paul Anderson of Team USA competes in the 90+kg class in the second match of the historical USA vs. USSR Olympic weightlifting meet held in...
USA Best in 1952: Tommy Kono and Peter George
20 Nov, 2018
Norbert Schemansky (USA): Got Muscles?
18 Nov, 2018
18 Nov, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
