El Sayed Nosseir (Egypt): Training in Cairo,1929
History in Color: June 1929, Cairo, Egypt – Olympic champion, 24-year old El Sayed Nosseir is training at the Cairo Sporting Club a year after winning a gold Olympic medal in Amsterdam. El Sayed...
History in Color: June 1929, Cairo, Egypt – Olympic champion, 24-year old El Sayed Nosseir is training at the Cairo Sporting Club a year after winning a gold Olympic medal in Amsterdam. El Sayed...
History in Color: July 25, 1979, Leningrad, Russia – 28-year old flyweight, Olympic champion Alexander Voronin of Kemerovo, Russia goes for 137.5kg in the clean-and-jerk program in the 52kg weight class at the 1979...
On November 3, 2019, legendary strongman, Olympic champion Charles Rigoulot (1903-1962) would have celebrated his 116th Birthday! On the History in Color cover photo, Charles Rigoulot is shown training in France in May 1931....
History in Color: June 1964, Paris, France – Legendary super heavyweight champion Leonid Zhabotinsky performs a snatch lift at the invitational international tournament dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the French Weightlifting Federation. Leonid...
History in Color: June 9, 1974, York, PA, USA – 20-year light heavyweight Lee James performs a clean-and-jerk lift in the 82.5kg weight class at the 1974 AAU Senior Nationals in York, Pennsylvania. It...
History in Color: In many ways, the year of 1959 was a milestone in the history of Polish Olympic weightlifting. 60 years ago, it was a huge break through for weightlifting in Poland. For...
History in Color: October 28, 1983, Moscow, Russia – 27-year old middle heavyweight Blagoy Blagoev of Team Bulgaria performs his magic in the snatch lifting in the 90kg weight class at the 1983 World...
History in Color: September 7, 1960, Rome, Italy – 23-year old featherweight Isaac Berger of the United States competes in the 60kg weight class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Isaac “Ike”...
History in Color: December 16, 1979, Frunze, Kirgizia – 31-year old super heavyweight Aslanbek Yenaldiev of Ordzhonikidze, Northern Ossetia, Russia lifts 250kg in his last attempt in the clean-and jerk program in the 110+kg...
History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland –Middleweight Gerry Gratton of Canada goes for the world record in the press lift in the 75kg weight class of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952...