Lazar Baroga (Romania): Tokyo, 1964
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 27-year old middle heavyweight Lazar Baroga of Sibiu, Romania competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Lazar Baroga...
History in Color: October 16, 1964, Tokyo, Japan – 27-year old middle heavyweight Lazar Baroga of Sibiu, Romania competes in the 90kg weight class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Lazar Baroga...
History in Color: June 20, 1968, Leningrad, USSR – 34-year old lightweight Balas Fitzi of Cluj, Romania performs a press lift in the 67.5kg weight class at the 1968 European Championships at the Winter...
History in Color: August 29, 1953, Stockholm, Sweden – Light heavyweight winners receive their medals for the 82.5kg weight class at the 1953 World Championships in Stockholm (left to right): Trofim Lomakin (USSR, silver...
May 15, 2019 – Legendary sub heavyweight, world record holder Dzhamal Pahakhov of USSR, Kazakhstan turned 65 today. Happy Birthday, Champion! We already featured several photos of Dzhamal Panakhov in the History in Color...
History in Color: November 26, 1956, Melbourne, Australia – One of the best heavyweights in the world of the 1950s, Humberto Selvetti of Argentina competes in the 90+kg class at the 1956 Summer Olympics in...
History in Color: October 25, 1983, Moscow, Russia – Olympic champion, legendary Yanko Rusev of Team Bulgaria competes in a clean-and-jerk program in the 67.5kg class at the 1983 World Championships at the Izmaylovo...
History in Color: July 26, 1952, Helsinki, Finland – Olympic medal winners in the 75kg weight class of the weightlifting tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (left to right): Gerry Gratton (Canada,...
The original for the cover History in Color photo was a black-and-white from the photo archives of a legendary bantamweight of the 1950s Ivan Udodov (left to right): Arkady Vorobyev of Yekaterinburg, Russia, Ivan...
This was the first post-WWII national championship in the USSR. Most of the champions were World War 2 veterans. Many of the champions didn’t win the titles after the war because they never came...
Note: May 8, 2019 – Plamen Asparukhov of Bulgaria celebrates his 59th birthday. Happy Birthday, Champion! History in Color: November 10, 1979, Thessaloniki, Greece – 19-year old sub heavyweight Plamen Asparukhov of Pernik, Bulgaria...