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History in Color: July 27, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Olympic medal winners in the 82.5 class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (left to right): Stan Stanczyk (USA, silver medal, 415kg), Trofim Lomakin...
The History in Color cover photo of this article depicts one of the Ireland’s all-time best weightlifters, Frank Rothwell performing a 145kg press lift at the Collins Hall in his hometown, Clonmel (Ireland) in...
History in Color: 1972 Olympic champion in the middleweight class, Yordan Bikov of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria performs a snatch lift in a weightlifting meet in 1971. Yordan Bikov (b. 1952) became the second Bulgarian weightlifter...
History in Color: March 17, 1965, Moscow, Russia – 21-year old lightweight Ondrej Hekel of Team Czechoslovakia competes in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1965 Prize of Moscow international tournament in the USSR....
History in Color: March 22, 1981, Lvov, Ukraine – 27-year old super heavyweight Vladimir Marchuk of Moscow, Russia sets a new world record in the 110+kg class at the 1981 Friendship Cup in Lvov....
June 13, 2019 – Olympic vice champion Vartan Militosyan (1950-2015) of Armenia would have been 69 today. Happy Birthday to the great champion! The History in Color series features Vartan Militosyan as a cameraman...
June 11, 2019 – Happy 58th Birthday to Oxen Mirzoyan of Armenia! History in Color: October 23, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 22-year old bantamweight Oxen Mirzoyan of Team USSR celebrates a new world record...
June 11, 2019 – Happy Birthday to outstanding Czech heavyweight Vaclav Syrowy (1934-2010)! Vaclav would have been 85 today. History in Color: March 9, 1958, Moscow, Russia – Heavyweight Vaclav Syrovy of Team Czechoslovakia...
History in Color: 2x Olympic champions, super heavyweight legends of Olympic weightlifting, Vasily Alexeev (left) of Shakhty, Russia, USSR and Leonid Zhabotinsky of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, USSR are having an armwrestling match on the beach...
History in Color: June 21, 1970, Szombathely, Hungary – One of all-time best Olympic weightlifters, legendary Imre Foldi of Team Hungary is preparing to press a new world record (127.5kg) in the 56kg weight...
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Plyukfelder and Medvedev in Stockholm (1963)
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Norbert Schemansky Marathon. The Legend Turns 91.
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