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History in Color: September 26, 1947, Philadelphia, PA, USA – 22-year old Stanley Stanczyk of the York Barbell Club, USA wins the World title in the 75kg class at the 1947 World Championships in...
History in Color: May 25, 1989, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA – 18-year old flyweight Ivan Ivanov of Shumen, Bulgaria wins the 52kg class with 250kg total (107.5+142.5) at the 1989 World Junior Championships in...
The History in Color presents one of the classics of weightlifting coach-and-athlete duos – Zygmunt Smalcerz and Augustyn Dziedzic of Poland. Augustyn Dziedzic (1928-2008) was one of all-time best personal trainers in the history...
History in Color: Olympic champion Yury Vlasov performs Olympic weightlifting in front of thousands of spectators at the soccer stadium in Moscow in 1960s. Based on the writing on the banner, the event was...
On August 10, 2018 Russian weightlifting celebrates its 133rd birthday. The long story of Olympic weightlifting began with the gentlemen on the cover photo when Dr. V.F. Krayevsky founded his club in St. Petersburg,...
History in Color: March 5, 1983, Odessa, Ukraine – Super heavyweight superstar of the first half of the 1980s, Anatoly Pisarenko of Kiev, Ukraine competes in the 110kg+ class at the 1983 Friendship Cup...
History in Color: March 21, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – 21-year old bantamweight Daniel Nunez of Cuba sets his first world record (121kg snatch) and wins the 56kg class with a 260kg (120+140) total at the...
History in Color features Olympic champion and pre-WW2 world strongest heavyweight Josef Manger of Bamberg, Germany. Josef Manger (1913-1991) began his career in sports with wrestling. At a young age, he joined the SC...
History in Color: March 18, 1981, Lvov, Ukraine – 20-year old flyweight Xenia Sarandaliev of Plovdiv, Bulgaria sets a new junior World record in clean-and-jerk (138kg) in the 52kg class at the 1981 Friendship...
History in Color features one of the Team CCCP weightlifting greats, World champion and the 1st light heavyweight to reach the 500kg mark in total, Gennady Ivanchenko of Riga, Latvia performing pulls (mid-width grip)...
Team USA: Olympic Champions of Helsinki
19 Aug, 2018
Phil Grippaldi (USA) in Montreal (1976)
18 Aug, 2018
David Rigert: The Last Tournament
18 Aug, 2018
Where Were You On July 25, 1976?
17 Aug, 2018
Everybody Loves the York Barbell
16 Aug, 2018
2 May, 2015
Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
12 May, 2015
28 Sep, 2015
1 May, 2016
1 May, 2017
