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The original photo of the wild turkey promenade was made a few years ago in the Plum Island area when we still lived in Massachusetts. To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan...
The original photo of the wild turkey promenade was made a few years ago in the Plum Island area when we still lived in Massachusetts. To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan...
History in Color: June 27, 1952, New York City, NY, USA – U.S. champions are lined up at the 1952 AAU Senior Nationals and Final Olympic Tryouts awards ceremony at the 69th Regiment Armory...
History in Color: September 21, 1975, Moscow, Russia – Legendary Soviet middle heavyweight David Rigert of Shakhty, Russia wins a gold medal with a total of 377.5kg (167.5+210) in the 90kg weight class at...
Remembering the Legends of the Golden Era of American weightlifting – Tommy Kono (1930-2016), Peter George (1929-2021), Stanley Stanczyk (1925-1997), Clyde Emrich (1931-2021), Norbert Schemansky (1924-2016), John Davis (1921-1984). History in Color: York, PA,...
History in Color: May 23, 1979, Varna, Bulgaria – 23-year old middleweight Yordan Mitkov of Asenovgrad, Bulgaria wins a gold medal in the 75kg class at the 1979 European Championships in Varna. Yordan Mitkov...
History in Color: June 28, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Vlasov, 28-year old super heavyweight of the Team USSR competes in the 90+kg weight class and wins a European title with...
History in Color: May 18, 1980, Moscow, Russia – 22-year old super heavyweight Anatoly Pisarenko of the Dynamo Kiev club receive prepares for his lift in the 110+kg class at the 1980 USSR Championships...
October 3, 2021 – Legend of Czech and world weightlifting, Olympic champion Hans Zdrazila turned 80! Hans Zdrazila (born in 1941) of Ostrava, Czech Republic was one of the best middleweight and light heavyweight...
History in Color: September 27, 2021 – One of the most talented and popular U.S. Olympic weightlifters in the 1970s, 3x Olympian, Phil Grippaldi turned 75! Phil Grippaldi competed in the 90kg weight class...
History in Color: December 16, 1979, Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, USSR – Olympic champion Yury Zaytsev, heavyweight of Zenith Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, wins the 1979 USSR Cup with a 407.5kg (170+237.5) total in the 110kg weight class....