Tagged: Photography
Kaarlo Kangasniemi: From October 1966 To October 1968
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin, East Germany – Finnish light heavyweight Kaarlo Kangasniemi is about ready to start a lift in the 82.5kg class at the 1966 World and European Championships in...
Karel Prohl: 19-Year Old Promise of Czech Weightlifting
History in Color: November 7, 1967, Budapest, Hungary – 19-year old bantamweight Karel Prohl, rising star of Czechoslovakian weightlifting, competes in the 56kg class at the international tournament of Olympic hopes held at the...
Club 500: Karl Pumpurins (Latvia, USSR)
History in Color: July 23, 1971, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight Karl Pumpurins of the Dynamo (Riga) club competes for Team Latvia in the 110kg weight class at the 1971 USSR Championships and Spartakiade at...
Snatch Lifting by Jaakko Kailajarvi of Finland (1966)
History in Color: October 19, 1966, Berlin, East Germany – Legend of Finnish weightlifting, 4x Olympian Jaakko Kailajarvi of Tampere, Finland competes in the snatch program at the 1966 World and European Championships in...
Hans Zdrazila: Moscow, 1964
History in Color: June 26, 1964, Moscow, Russia, USSR – Four months before winning an Olympic gold medal in the middleweight in Tokyo, Hans Zdrazila of Team Czechoslovakia wins a silver medal in the...
